Comments on: Microsoft to Pay for De-Indexing from Google

By: Mio Navman M350D

Mio Navman M350D — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:58:05 +0000

It was very much surprising to read this post.I have never ever thought that Microsoft will have to take this step.But I thing this all must surely for the benefit of Microsoft.it was very informative to know about this latest update.

By: Mio Navman M350D

Mio Navman M350D — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:58:05 +0000

By: r4i

r4i — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:05:53 +0000

Hi guy's,
The difference between bing/yahoo!/google is fairly minimal, and there is an extremely low barrier to switching between them. If just one site that a user considers critical (fox news for conservatives, msdn for windows developers, etc) is de-listed, it may well make them say “You know what, I will just use yahoo!/bing so I get inclusive results”. Hit enough key sites, that people WANT to see inclusively in their search results… might have an impact.

By: uttoransen

uttoransen — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:46:28 +0000

the news websites no matter how big they are will lose lots of visitors if they go against google, i don't see any good reason why these sites should go against google anyway… google never displays content on their sites/search pages, they just send the visitors straight to the source website…

By: SaifuddinMerchant

SaifuddinMerchant — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:57:42 +0000

How does getting de-indexed from google save them premium content? Really just takes away 1/9 of the traffic coming to them without much of an advantage!

By: antonia 007

antonia 007 — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:13:03 +0000

For last few years I use just Google, because all serach engines I love(altavista, yahoo, …) sucks, and can not find anything.
I do not net Fox news, …
I need informations,(if any) thats the difference, ..

By: robertmeta

robertmeta — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:10:51 +0000

This is actually a fairly smart strategy. The difference between bing/yahoo!/google is fairly minimal, and there is an extremely low barrier to switching between them. If just one site that a user considers critical (fox news for conservatives, msdn for windows developers, etc) is de-listed, it may well make them say “You know what, I will just use yahoo!/bing so I get inclusive results”. Hit enough key sites, that people WANT to see inclusively in their search results… might have an impact.

Of course, then comes hostile indexing, paywalls and all other sorts of noise, but I don't think the idea is outright silly.

It is a game of chicken,

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:37:07 +0000

If people want to read the news on News Corp websites they will go to the News Corp websites directly – they won't be using a search engine to find it. This is evidenced by the fact that only about 1/9th of their traffic comes from search engines (I don't have the reference website for this off the top of my head).

People are not going to suddenly start searching Bing so they can search for News Corp content – they'll go direct to the horse's mouth. If MS thinks that's what will happen they're being pretty naive.

And I do have to laugh how News Corp are claiming Google steal their content when all Google are doing is providing a funnel to send people to them to read the full content in the first place.

By: ninjaskitch

ninjaskitch — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:18:03 +0000

I'd be ECSTATIC to see Fox de-indexed from Google. It will only serve to make News Corp less profitable by getting less web ad revenue from Google users. Google searches still account for almost 70% of web searches. Does MS really think Fox news is THAT valuable to people that they will switch search engines to see Fox results? And does Fox really believe de-indexing will inspire people to pay for Fox articles when there are hundreds of clone articles listed on Google News?