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If Google doesn't link to anything anymore, its own traffic may hurt a bit as well.
by Scarblac 8y ago
If Google doesn't link to anything anymore, its own traffic may hurt a bit as well.
- realusername 8y agoThere's plenty of non-EU news to link to.
- Scarblac 8y agoSure, but most of it isn't particularly interesting for EU readers. The vast majority isn't even in their own language.
- realusername 8y agoOnly temporarily. A lot of publishers would be happy to increase their current market share to cover EU content. At least for English, French and Spanish, I could easily see some foreign media boosting their traffic.
- T-N-T 8y agoPropaganda organs like Russia Today already have versions translated in various European languages. They would be absolutely delighted to be the last and only piece of internet news to be available on google. Europe is shooting itself on the foot as always.
- magduf 8y agoAl Jazeera news has an English-language version, oriented towards readers in English-speaking countries. RT is the same. News aggregators can link to journalism sources like these without having to pay extra fees. Of course, it might seem problematic that EU readers would get news from a Middle Eastern state-owned news source and a propaganda outlet of the Russian government, but if that's what the EU wants, it's their right to legislate that.
- izzydata 8y agoI think Google would win that game of chicken.
- castlecrasher2 8y agoYeah, if the law makes EU traffic unprofitable Google will just shut it down. The GDPR started that trend to an admittedly very small extent, but this would basically make the EU a no-go zone for affected online businesses.