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This critique confuses me: "In December 2014, facing a new law in Spain that would have charged Google for scraping content from Spanish news sources (which, a
by brianlweiner 10y ago
This critique confuses me:
"In December 2014, facing a new law in Spain that would have charged Google for scraping content from Spanish news sources (which, after all, have to pay to prepare their news), Google suddenly withdrew its news service from Spain, which led to an immediate drop in traffic to Spanish new stories."
So Spanish law changed to try and force Google to pay for indexing their news content therefore Google responded by no longer indexing their news content - and then they complained they weren't being indexed?
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- euyyn 10y agoSpanish here: It's exactly like you described, and shameful. To add to the idiocy, it happened right after Germany enacted a similar law, the difference being the German version let news organizations negotiate collective agreements with search engines. Obviously, in less than 1 second, they had an agreement with Google to index for free, because they wanted the traffic more than a fee. So the Spanish government thought they could outsmart the Germans and made a version in which payment was compulsory for all search engines. Everybody saw it coming, except the government.