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Google and Murdoch involved the Cold War November 11th, 2009

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News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch said, would remove the word from the index of Google’s news search. Murdoch this way so that the public be willing to pay for online news from the media that he had.

In an interview with Sky NewsAustralia, king of the media revealed that daily newspapers owned, including The Sun, The Times, and The Wall Street Journal, will reconsider a plan to block the news that is displayed by Google. In recent months, Murdoch involved in the war of words with Google.

Murdoch accused even Google as Kleptomania and parasites. This phrase posted Murdoch owned media related news found on Google News pages. When asked why Murdoch is not necessarily remove it all his media sites from Google’s index, this man replied that he was considering another plan.

“We’ll do it, but then after we shot the charges against Google,” he added. Murdoch gives the explanation that the Wall Street Journal site has been wiped from Google’s index. “However, the reader can still access the first paragraph of each article. If you have not subscribed to WSJ.com, then you’ll get only a paragraph and subscription form,” he said. King 78-year-old media is not always true.

Until now, users who access the Internet services WSJ.com articles from the Google search index always served his needs. Google always shows the overall appearance of the article without subscription form. Chosen this way many Internet users who feel compounded when access to WSJ.com for always appear subscription form.

“We believe justice will be tested in the process of preparing hukum.Untuk it, we must remain calm,” said Murdoch. Murdoch underlined and mentioned the flood of feelings that he felt the site was too far. “They stole our story,” he explained.

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South Korean Trade Surplus Only $ 3,79 M November 2nd, 2009

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Government of South Korea recorded a trade surplus of $ 3,79 billion dollars in October. The number is due to sharply declining imports rather than exports.

As for exports, South Korea recorded 8.3 percent fall to USD34,03 billion in the last month, while imports fell 16.3 percent to $ 30,23 billion.

As reported by the AFP, Sunday (1/11/2009), this surplus in October compared with a surplus in the previous month for $ 4,7 billion, marking nine consecutive months in the fall of government.

Exports, which is footing half the South Korean economy and the fourth largest in Asia, still weakened by a sluggish global economy.

In addition, outbound shipping fell in most export goods except semiconductors and display panels for TVs, mobile handsets, or computer that jumped 36.8 percent and 38.8 percent.

While exports to the U.S. market (the U.S.) and Europe continued to decline because of weak demand, while those to China, Southeast Asia and other developing economies obtained in the last month.

Imports are still down sharply, but the decline was caused by crude oil pembilan South Korea increased by 52.4 million barrels in October, up from 48.7 million barrels a month ago.

The government estimates that exports and imports will rebound in November, and the annual trade surplus expected to exceed the record $ 40 billion for this year.

For information, the trade surplus has reached $ 34,58 billion in 10 months to October period, this figure exceeds the previous record reached $ 31,90 billion in the period from January to October 1998.

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