Seems like Google is devaluing their own product. An advertiser pays Google for a service: access to eyeballs, but if this is successful fewer people will be viewing ads so won't advertisers be smart to spend their money elsewhere?

Maybe Murdoch feels like it's not his responsibility to put a robots.txt file on his websites. It's like if you put a special sign in your window burglars will skip your house, but really they shouldn't be burgling in the first place. Not that I'm defending him. In fact maybe he's starting to lose it, we could have another Howard Hughes on our hands here.