In an interview with Sky News Australia over the weekend, Rupert Murdoch said that he might remove his newspapers from Google after he throws up pay walls and starts charging for content.

"The people who simply just pick up everything and run with it— steal our stories, we say they steal our stories—they just take them," Murdoch said. "That's Google, that's Microsoft, that's Ask.com, a whole lot of people ... they shouldn't have had it free all the time, and I think we've been asleep."

Taking the exact opposite point of view, in another interview over the weekend, Steven Brill, the founder of Journalism Online, which is creating tools to help publishers set up payment systems, told On the Media that he thinks search engines will actually be useful to paid content.

"Google actually can be and should be the best possible sales source for content online," he said. "You can set it up so that, you know, Google will still send people to those articles, but then they might be asked to pay."

Meanwhile, the Telegraph (UK) reports that Google released a statement reiterating the fact that any company that doesn't want its content indexed by search engines can do so with a simple code tweak.

"Publishers put their content on the web because they want it to be found, so very few choose not to include their material in Google News and web search," the statement said, according to the Telegraph. "But if they tell us not to include it, we don't."

Murdoch interview is below. Transcript of Brill interview is here.