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Financial Times / Madhumita Murgia and David Bond
/ Sep 15, 2017“If you don’t sign up for ‘first click free,’ you virtually disappear from a search. And given the power of that Google platform, that is disadvantaging premium content of great provenance,” said Robert Thomson, chief executive of News Corp, at an event in New York on Wednesday. “[T]here are many things to be negotiated, but . . . Google has indicated to us that they’ll bring ‘first click free’ to an end. That will fundamentally change the content ecosystem.” —
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