Tue Nov 10, 8:33 AM ET

A woman reads the Wall Street Journal in Washington, DC. Google has said, in response to threats by Rupert Murdoch to ban the search engine from listing content from his news empire, that any company could ask to have stories taken off. (AFP/File/Karen Bleier)

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