In an interview with Sky News Australia over the weekend, Rupert Murdoch said that he might remove his newspapers' content from Google search 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."

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 on their content pages.

"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."