# Removing paysites from Google News?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-paysites-from-google-news/517777>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 16, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-paysites-from-google-news/517777 "2009-11-16T15:27:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Snow\_Pea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Snow\_Pea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snow_Pea)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-paysites-from-google-news/517777/1 "2009-11-16T15:27:56Z")

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I enjoy my personalized Google News page and don’t mind logging in to see it.

However, there is now one hugely annoying thing going on…the New York based “'Newsday” has put all their content behind a pay wall. Now all you get when you click on a Newsday news headline in Google News is a redirect to a teaser and a demand for $$ in order to read the story.

Fine, whatever, Newsday can do as they please. But what’s the deal with Google News including pay sites? Is this a new thing? Is there a way for a user to block Newsday from even being listed? This is really aggravating.

Sure you could say “just don’t click on Newsday’s headlines”, but they’re ubiquitous on my Google News page due to my interests and also sometimes I click a headline before reading the smaller text that tells me is a newsday link.

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-paysites-from-google-news/517777/2 "2009-11-16T15:37:01Z")

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Newsday is Rupert Murdoch owned.  
He’s fighting with google over content:  
[Doing the Math on News Corp.’s Threatened Google Block](http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/doing-the-math-on-news-corps-threatened-google-block/)

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-paysites-from-google-news/517777/3 "2009-11-23T04:22:39Z")

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A little more:  
[Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact](http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a243c8b2-d79b-11de-b578-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1)

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> Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company’s being paid to “de-index” its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry.
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> The impetus for the discussions came from News Corp, owner of newspapers ranging from the Wall Street Journal of the US to The Sun of the UK, said a person familiar with the situation, who warned that talks were at an early stage.
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> However, the Financial Times has learnt that Microsoft has also approached other big online publishers to persuade them to remove their sites from Google’s search engine.

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**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-paysites-from-google-news/517777/4 "2009-11-23T16:22:56Z")

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> [@Squink](#):
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> Newsday is Rupert Murdoch owned.  
> He’s fighting with google over content:  
> [Doing the Math on News Corp.’s Threatened Google Block](http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/doing-the-math-on-news-corps-threatened-google-block/)

Newsday is owned by Cablevision, not Murdoch.

Murdoch owns the Wall Street Journal.