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Microsoft in move to cut out Google

By Andrew Edgecliffe -Johnson in New York, Tim Bradshaw and Ben Fenton in London and Ben Hall in Paris

Published: November 23 2009 21:03 | Last updated: November 23 2009 21:03

Microsoft is offering different terms to different publishers as it seeks to boost Bing by paying some content owners to cut their sites off from Google’s rival search engine, industry executives said on Monday.

Many executives and analysts welcomed the idea of large content owners including Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp being paid to “de-index” from Google’s dominant search engine, first reported on FT.com.

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