The Financial Times reports that Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company being paid to “de-index” its news websites from Google.
“The Financial Times has learnt that Microsoft has also approached other big online publishers to persuade them to remove their sites from Google’s search engine….One website publisher approached by Microsoft said that the plan ‘puts enormous value on content if search engines are prepared to pay us to index with them.’”
via FT.com
