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> Google was stealing Anyone can set a robot.txt to nosnippet and there ya go, no snippet.
by lando2319 7y ago
> Google was stealing
Anyone can set a robot.txt to nosnippet and there ya go, no snippet.
- pas 7y agoProbably the correct argument is that Google is a monopsony here. Unless all publishers form a cartel (very unlikely) there will always be one that can enable the snippet and get all them clicks. (Ignoring whether this is good/bad for end-users, how this would effect the market.) Now, did this law/regulation/policy-change help with that? No, because there are still and probably will always be other news sites that enable the snippet preview feature. So Google is not incentivized to spend more on news snippets. (Ignoring whether they otherwise would, since they likely don't make money on them anyway.)