Comments on: Murdoch: Late to the Search Party, But He's Bringing Lots of Booze

By: Texas

Texas — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:08:54 +0000

Well it's been 12 months since this topic hit the headlines but Murdoch still hasn't bought his search engine.
The fact that he has signed Google to Myspace doesn't change his plans, because Google are only providing search results to one site.
Given that Looksmart's institutional ownership has now grown to 52% I think they are still the prime canidate.
I guess we'll see soon enough.

By: Dimitar Vesselinov

Dimitar Vesselinov — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:39:43 +0000

News Corp's Rupert Murdoch discusses search plans (NWS 4Q05 conf call quotes)

"....As for search, we're not prepared to announce that, yet, other than to say we're in various plans of negotiations to buy a controlling interest in a, what we think is a wonderful search engine, but you will think an insignificant price."

"....competition with Google. Google is a pure search company. We're talking about the media here. So I guess if you want to read into it, you can look at competition with Yahoo!, although we don't see why we can't live side by side with them very well. This is an area of enormous growth and there's room for a lot more than one or two players."

http://www.internetstockblog.com/2005/08/murdoch_discuss.html

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 02:41:02 +0000

If they do buy Looksmart they would also get Furl, which could figure in with their buyout of MySpace. They'd have 2 impressive social networking services that can be combined to create an even more impressive service.

Looksmart also has WiseNut which is a nice looking search engine.

By: Kevin Burton

Kevin Burton — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 02:00:54 +0000

John!

You've been misinformed. It turns out that News Corp is going to buy Google and I have proof!