Did you know that we can stop Google from linking to our sites?
And that is what Murdoch of News Corp. should’ve done instead of ranting at Google:

‘The executives who run big, ailing news organizations—in particular Tom Curley of AP and News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch—complain every chance they get that search engines—in particular Google—are stealing from them, because Google links to their stories but doesn’t pay the AP or News Corp. to do so. The way the news bosses see it, that is theft, plain and simple. They say Google is making tons of money by shamelessly lifting their content, and it’s driving newspapers out of business.

‘At a meeting of media executives going on this week in Beijing, Murdoch and Curley gave impassioned speeches, saying they’re mad as hell and they aren’t going to take it anymore. They warn that aggregators like Google had better start paying up, or else.

‘If they really wanted Google to stop driving all those readers to their Web sites at no charge, they would simply stop Google from linking to their news stories.

‘Google doesn’t force Web sites to be included in its search listings. The people who run any site can remove it from Google’s results with a few keystrokes. All they have to do is go to the Web site’s robot.txt file and type this: User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: /’
See full article -Weston Kosova –blog.newsweek