Microsoft Corp has had talks with News Corp about a tie up, which would involve News Corp getting paid to take its news websites off Google Inc, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.

Researchers at Microsoft Research India have developed a compression and redundancy elimination technology that can operate as a host service in enterprise systems without the use of accelerator devices over a WAN.

Microsoft has held talks with the News Corporation about a tie up, which would involve News Corp. getting paid to take its news Web sites off Google, according to press reports.

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.

Microsoft's Windows Azure and SQL Azure address part of organizations requirements for an open, standards based platform that can support local, private and public clouds. by Dan Kusnetzky

Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company's being paid to "de-index" its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry.

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.

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 Research India has developed host server technology for reducing redundancy on wide-area networks.