This isn't quite an accurate description either. Publishers can already prevent search engines from posting snippets of their websites; they can block search e

This isn't quite an accurate description either. Publishers can already prevent search engines from posting snippets of their websites; they can block search engines with robots.txt. This is an attempt to "have your cake and eat it too" by forcing search engines to display content in a specific format that publishers prefer. Right now Google can say "if you want to be listed, you must allow us to show a snippet"; this law tries to change that. It's dumb.