inochi ventures » rupert murdoch http://inochiventures.com a privately financed angel investment fund Fri, 18 May 2012 11:02:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 News Corp pull Google content http://inochiventures.com/2009/11/news-corp-pull-google-content/ http://inochiventures.com/2009/11/news-corp-pull-google-content/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:31:26 +0000 admin http://inochiventures.com/?p=170 Following on from our post The End of Free?, Rupert Murdoch has announced that News Corp will be pulling all their content from Google once their sites move to subscription based models.

This is an interesting development and one that may signify the decline of Google, Bing etc as all encompassing sources of news. If more outlets remove their content momentum could mount behind individual stand-alone independent unindexed outlets, rather than the current web free-for-all that search engines provide.

Time, and a lot of it, will tell…

Read the article from Media Week here.

]]> http://inochiventures.com/2009/11/news-corp-pull-google-content/feed/ 0 The End of ‘Free’? http://inochiventures.com/2009/10/the-end-of-free/ http://inochiventures.com/2009/10/the-end-of-free/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:21:20 +0000 admin http://inochiventures.com/?p=156 There is a growing – nay, inexorable – movement towards the school of thought that ‘free’ content is not a sustainable business model. Rupert Murdoch is perhaps the biggest evangelist – the FT has proved that online subscription models can work in the UK. The screening of the forthcoming England v Ukraine game on a number of News International sites is further evidence the company is marching towards a paid model. Delegates at the recent AOP Digital Publishing Summit were told the same thing. It’s a matter of time – and the real winners will be those who make the best go of it. In ten years time it will be bizarre to look back on a time when we could read anything without paying.

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