Microsoft has discussed paying News Corp. to remove its news Web sites from Google's search results and list them on its Bing search engine instead, The Financial Times reported Sunday on its Web site.

News Corp hopes to delete its news articles from Google's search engine and put them on Microsoft's search engines instead, in return for payment. Although this represents a new option for funding journalism, the effort seems doomed to fail before it even gets off the ground.

Report: News Corp Considering Removing Content From Google

A reported deal between Microsft and News Corp that would delist News Corp contentent from Google would wouln't work.

Monday's early headlines include Microsoft and News Corp. taking aim at Google and reports that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon could succeed Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary.

Microsoft has held talks with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp over a possible plan for the software giant to pay the media company to remove its news websites from Google, a report said Monday.

Microsoft has held talks with News Corp. in which News Corp. would be paid to "de-index " its Web sites from Google, a report says.

While it might be a dream of publishers--hard hit by the digital tsunami and blaming Google for the crisis--Microsoft is not likely to fork over the big bucks they'd need for exclusively indexing their content.

Google's mantra is "Don't be evil." Let's hope it the tech giant means it, because if Chrome OS succeeds in replacing Windows at the world's dominant operating system, Google's sway over the computing world could be exponentially higher than it is today.

Microsoft has held talks with News Corp. about paying the company to remove its news Web sites from Google's search listings.