Dan Lyons over at Newsweek also writes a column on this deal. He goes at it from the angle that this is going to do the opposite of what everybody thinks it is going to do: seriously drive traffic away, and not from Google.
For those owners of websites who do not want their content indexed by google, please edit your robots.txt file and shut up about it.
Which leads me to today’s bombshell news: News Corp is probably going to yank their search results from Google and sell them to Bing. This is just such a bad idea, on [...]