Google: Murdoch can keep his stories

By GottaLaff

Arrrr you really going through with this, Rupe? Say aye. Please say aye:

Google said on Tuesday, in response to threats by Rupert Murdoch to ban the search engine from listing content from his news empire, that any company could ask to have stories taken off. [...]

"Publishers put their content on the web because they want it to be found, so very few choose not to include their material in Google News and web search. But if they tell us not to include it, we don't."

It added: "If publishers want their content to be removed from Google News specifically all they need to do it tell us."

Nothing would make me day like Murdoch content walkin' the Google plank, mateys. I'd be tempted to pay many a doubloon for that to happen.