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Microsoft offering to pay news sites to leave Google

Microsoft is talking to the owners of several major newspapers about paying them to keep their articles off Google's search engines, according to a published report.

In such a deal Microsoft would compensate the newspaper companies, including News Corp., the owner of The Wall Street Journal, and other major companies to "de-index" their online stories from Google News, the Financial Times...

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