Google Rips Apart News Corp Letter, But One Point Is Missing

Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is making Rupert Murdoch, the controversial publishing scion, the strategic focus of a dispute between the search engine, European publishers and regulators.

Google tears News Corp’s letter

In a blog post titled “Dear Rupert,” Google tears apart a letter from News Corp (NASDAQ:NWSA) Chief Executive Robert Thompson to EU competition commissioner Joaquín Almunia that criticized Google for manipulating search engine results, accusing Google of being a monopoly and indexing publishers low in the search engine rankings. But in its response Google doesn't directly deny that it punishes...