Bing and online newspapers: Web-wide war

Economist | Nov. 25, 2009 (News Analysis)

EVEN technology pundits can sometimes be right. Jason Calacanis, an entrepreneur and noted agent provocateur, recently argued that there is a simple solution to the woes of both Microsoft and big media companies. The world’s largest software firm should pay Time Warner, News Corporation and others firms to block Google, the search giant, from indexing their content—and make it searchable exclusively through Bing, Microsoft’s new search service. Media ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Derek Hawkins - Nov 25, 2009 - 7:51 AM PST
Reviewed by: Derek Hawkins (review), Mike LaBonte (review), Richard McIlnay (review), Kaizar Campwala (review), planetadetroya (review)
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Edited by: Derek Hawkins - Nov 25, 2009 - 7:52 AM PST

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Derek Hawkins
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 by Derek Hawkins - Nov. 25, 2009

A far more sober analysis of this issue than I saw when the story broke. The Economist puts it in perspective: Murdoch is going to be hard-pressed to pull all his newspapers from the biggest source of their traffic.

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Kaizar Campwala
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 by Kaizar Campwala - Nov. 27, 2009

In classic Economist style, this piece gives a great overview of this issue, but doesn't break any new ground for people already in the know.

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Mike LaBonte
3.5
 by Mike LaBonte - Nov. 25, 2009

A decent, fairly neutral story, with some context. Some of the evidence lacks depth, and overall it is begging for hyperlinks.

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Richard McIlnay
3.4
 by Richard McIlnay - Nov. 25, 2009

The story was doing fine until the end when they pronounced the magic word "competition" which would take car of everything if the big boys close the web. I don't think so !!!

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planetadetroya
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 by planetadetroya - Dec. 22, 2009
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