... and on the original topic....
From another Guardian report:
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For the newspapers, of course, the question is whether Microsoft's dollars can make up for the loss of traffic that Google generates for them.
Which rather contradicts the MacWorld report that Murdoch's papers make no money out of the search engines. They presumably do make money - from the ads seen by people sent to their sites.
And, from the comments:
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The management of both firms has gone senile. Theory is, if you tie two rocks together, they sink slower.