Rupert Murdoch hates Google. The publishing giant and Google have been at each other over Google’s book scanning program and the fact that Murdoch owns many of the newspapers whose stories are indexed by Google and then offered to readers free.

Murdoch thinks that we should all be thrilled to pay to read online news just as we pay for newspapers. Google has a new patent that will really make Murdoch unhappy. The patent is titled “Segmenting Printed Media Pages Into Articles.”

What that means is the patent is for a system that allows Google to scan pages of newspapers and magazines in their entirety with each story and associated images turned into individual articles for the web. Each of the stores would be indexable and searchable on Google for sure.

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