Google is not winning many admirers and the list of its detractors is growing. The latest addition to Google haters' list is Rupert
Murdoch. News Corp. chief recently aired his opinion about internet search giant and called it 'Piracy Leader', which does not sound flattering at all. The media mogul also insinuated that Google makes money from advertisements with illegal content. Courtesy Twitter, Murdoch also aired his views about several other topics including upcoming SOPA or Stop Online Piracy Act.
However, Google was more than eager to counter the accusations made by Murdoch. A company spokesperson said, "Last year we took down 5 million infringing web pages from our search results and invested more than $60 million in the fight against bad ads "¦ Like many other tech companies, we believe that there are smart, targeted ways to shut down foreign rogue websites without asking US companies to censor the Internet." The internet search giant dismissed the entire episode by calling its "just nonsense".
Rupert Murdoch also aimed at the US president Obama. He posted, "So Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery." The US tech industry is currently campaigning against SOPA in its current form. Major tech companies including Facebook, Google and Wikipedia have expressed their opinion against the proposed act.