Rupert Murdoch has hinted he may issue a lawsuit against Google if it did not stop indexing content from his media empire.
In a recent interview with New York Magazine, a senior media executive claims Murdoch is ready to see the search giant in court. "He’s pretty tightly wound up over Google and has been ready to sue them,” the executive claims. “He doesn't trust them at all.” Another unnamed executive from MySpace, the flagging social-networking site that Murdoch paid 580 million U.S. dollars for in 2005, claims Murdoch is ill at ease in the internet sphere.
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"Digital is out of his comfort zone,” he told the newspaper. “It's much more the Wild West. He gets the raw-competition part of it, but he's never been in a place where the business model isn’t clear. The destruction is just happening so fast.”
News Corporation recently signed a deal with Microsoft to have that company's Bing search engine become the exclusive indexer and online source for News Corp's media properties, which include the Wall Street Journal, FOX News, and the UK’s The Sun and The Times, among many others.
