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News Corp. is considering blocking Google's Internet search engine from displaying its news article and is talking to Microsoft about listing only on its site, reported by Sarah Rabil at Bloomberg.

Microsoft is seeking exclusive content to draw users to its Bing search engine in an industry dominated by Google, which has about six times as many U.S. users. News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rupert Murdoch said this month he may block Google from scanning and indexing stories from his newspapers, which include the Wall Street Journal and Times of London.

 

News Corp. rival MediaNews Group Inc., will block some of their stories from Google Inc.'s news site next year when the company starts charging for premium online content.

News Corp. is considering blocking Google's search engine from displaying its news articles and is talking to Microsoft Corp. about displaying stories on its Bing site.

Microsoft, Google, Murdoch, Wall Street Journal just a couple big names that will make this move interesting to follow.

See the full story written by Greg Beninger and Brian Womack at Bloomberg.

 

Just received an email from Yahoo effectively advising that they have given Syndication of their Search Feeds the GREEN light.

Yahoo BOSS (Build Your Own Service) is a great Open Search API, where the goal of BOSS is simple: "to foster innovation in the search industry. Developers, start-ups, and large Internet companies can use BOSS to build and launch web-scale search products that utilize the entire Yahoo! Search index. BOSS gives you access to Yahoo!'s investments in crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful infrastructure. By combining your unique assets and ideas with our search technology assets, BOSS is a platform for the next generation of search innovation, serving hundreds of millions of users across the Web." Source http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/

Yahoo have removed the daily caps, removed all the other restrictions that were with the original Yahoo Search APIs. Well Done Yahoo... that sure is one way to get a lot of third party tools using Yahoo search, aka greater search share for Yahoo.

The Interesting part was that Yahoo emailed advising to sign up via their 1st Yahoo! Search BOSS syndication partner DDC.com. Here is a copy of the email received:

Yahoo has annouced that by the end of this year all forms of Paid Inclusion into the Yahoo Search Index will be shut down!

This is probably the best news I have heard from Yahoo for a long time for Domainers.

Background... Trellian was a long standing Yahoo partner, reselling Paid Inclusion services via our Priority Submit service since 2001, since the good old Inktomi and AltaVista paid inclusion days. Unfortunately Inktomi was acquired by Overture and shortly later Overture and AltaVista was acquired by Yahoo.