"Microsoft To Pay Content Providers to 'De-index' from Google"

Posted by Tux De Luxe at 09:36 24/11/2009
"Microsoft To Pay Content Providers to 'De-index' from Google": "It is no secret that Microsoft is doing whatever it can to eat away at Google's immense market share of the search market, with Bing being its most ambitious effort yet. Well, it seems the battle just got a whole lot dirtier, as The Financial Times has uncovered news that Microsoft has approached several news content providers, offering them money if they 'de-index' their sites from Google."