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Sat 12 Dec 2009Will Murdoch's readers pay for online news?
Rupert Murdoch, long seen as the devil incarnate by many in the newspaper world, is bidding to be its saviour – but a public grown accustomed to ‘free news’ will not like it, writes MARK HENNESSY, London Editor
FOR YEARS, GOOGLE has been the leviathan of the internet, due to the quality of its search engine – its news content is fed by thousands of newspaper websites around the world that do not get paid for the privilege of appearing there.
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