Google Dec. 1 is letting publishers limit the number of articles readers can view for free on its search and Google News site to five per day. The move came the same day News Corp. founder and publishing mogul Rupert Murdoch lashed out at online aggregators for raking in ad revenues from content without compensating publishers. Murdoch, who threatened last month to de-index the Wall Street Journal and other paid content from Google, is reportedly working on a deal that would make Google rival Microsoft Bing’s fledgling search engine an exclusive host partner of Journal and other News Corp. content.
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Google Dec. 1 extended an olive branch to newspaper
publishers by letting them limit the number of articles readers can view for
free on Google News to five per day.
The move came the same day News Corp. founder and
publishing mogul Rupert Murdoch, speaking at a Federal Trade Commi…