Report that Microsoft may help News Corp. delist sites is puzzling
November 23, 2009
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[...] (ChattahBox) — I am a bit puzzled by this story. According to the Financial Times, News Corp. has supposedly has been consulting with Microsoft about plans to help the media company “de-index” its Web sites so that their stories could not be detected …Read Original Story: Report that Microsoft may help News Corp. delist sites is puzzling – Chat… [...]
There’s an easy way to do this, and I am planning ti deploy it here at our business. Add lines to the Windows HOSTS file like this:
127.0.0.1 http://www.wsj.com
You need one line for each site you want to block; the number at the front tells your PC that this site is located on your own computer, and since it really isn’t, your PC will never connect to the site.
My blocking of Murdoch’s sites was prompted by the Wall Street Journal sending spam to my gmail.com address. If the WSJ is in such dire straits that they have to steal from Google to deliver advertising – and spam *is* theft – then I can’t really trust anything they might say anyhow.
Bugger. The comment engine automatically added the http colon slash slash at the front, you don’t really want that.