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Mark Cuban Defends Rupert Murdoch On Blocking Google

by Sudha Krishna | November 9, 2009 at 03:58 pm

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Mark Cuban is being, well, Mark Cuban as the Dallas Mavericks owner rushes to defend fellow mogul Robert Murdoch's and his proposal to ban Google from indexing Newscorp sites.

Murdoch who owns a bunch of media properties inlduing Sky News, the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and the Daily Telegraph has been on a well publisized rant against Google Indexing.

“I think we will [remove our websites from Google’s search index] but that’s when we start charging,” he said.

Now, Cuban is jumping into the fray, arguing that "real time" search is where news value lies therefore Google is not as relevant.

TWITTER IS SURPASSING GOOGLE as a destination for finding information on breaking and recent news of all types. Whats more, TWITTER POSSES NO THREAT to any destination news site. 140 characters does not a story make. Find it on twitter, link to a story on say, FoxNews and everyone is happy. The same concept applies to Facebook Links

If it matters to me, chances are very good its in one of the twitter feeds I follow.

Having to search for and find news in search engines is so 2008.

So, are Rupert Murdoch and Makr Cuban right, is "Google so 2008?"

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Mritunjay

at 16:24 on November 9th, 2009

I read the article and then the ad on the top of the page and can't stop myself from grinning.

The article asks: is "Google so 2008"? and the ad on top of page says:

Google Local Business Center - Enhance your free business listing on Google <Picture Here>

Whether Google is so 2008 or not....the fact remains it started something big and would hold fort with innovations in the foreseeable future. The media moghuls can crib/fight/ban but with social networking and citizen journalism getting bigger, they may want to reconsider such moves.

Cody_K (not verified)

at 04:04 on November 10th, 2009

Cuban's assertion that it will just as easily be found on Twitter or FaceBook is fine... until Murdoch starts charging for his content and closes his sites up to subscription only.Then it won't matter how many links you can find to NewsCorp sites or where you find them. If you're not a paid subscriber... you won't see the content.Sad day for wingnuts who love their "free market" and "free speech". lol