10 Nov 2009

Murdoch to try to block Google

1:51 pm on 10 November 2009

Media magnate Rupert Murdoch has said he will try to block Google from using news content from his companies.

Mr Murdoch believes that search engines cannot legally use headlines and paragraphs of news stories as search results.

He has told Sky News Australia he will explore ways to remove stories from Google's search indexes, including Google News.

Earliert this year Mr Murdoch's News Corp said it would start charging online customers across all its websites.

The target had been for all its sites to charge by June next year, but indications are that this is now unlikely.

News Corp owns the Times and Sun newspapers in the UK and the New York Post and Wall Street Journal in the US.

Newspapers across the world are considering the best way to make money from the internet, particularly in a time of falling advertising revenues, the BBC reports.