Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has been causing quite a stir recently by threatening to block Google from News Corp sites. The reason for doing so is that he believes search engines are effectively stealing his content by displaying headlines in search results.
However, according to Google they send news organisations “about 100,000 clicks every minute”, whilst Hitwise also claim that 25% of WSJ.com’s traffic is from Google, so can News Corp really afford to lose this huge source of traffic and revenue? According to Murdoch they can, and in a recent interview with Sky News he said:
“What’s the point of having someone come occasionally, who likes the headline they see in Google, come to us? Sure, we can go out and say we have so many millions of visitors, you’d better advertise, and so on. The fact is, there’s not enough advertising in the world to go around to make all the web sites profitable. We’d rather have fewer people coming to our web sites but paying.”
Let’s face it, we all love Christmas. It’s a great time of year where we reflect on the year just gone, eat mince pies, watch the Queen’s speech, listen to The Pogues on the wireless (oops DAB Digital Radio) and laugh at Grandad as he drops his false teeth in the dog’s food bowl and farts as he bends over to pick them up.
Topping off a fantastic month of award entries and wins, we were victorious at the 
