Re: Johnston Press websites start charging for news
 

Rather pointless concession. Murdoch's complaint was that Google was not paying for the indexing of his site. Google shouldn't be allowing people to circumvent pay walls (well, without the permission of their owners) anyway but Murdoch expected that. He just also wanted revenue for his 'content' to appear on the search engine. :dozey:

The news media found a nice way around this away didn't they? Open up the first paragraph and headline for public viewing and hide the rest behind a paywall.

It seems like Murdoch wants search engines to be like a TV subscription model. If you use Bing you get access to The Times and The Sun. Bing Plus (at a cost of £20 a month) would get you access to Sky Sports and so on.