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I think you are only looking at the most obvious at the expense of everything else. Ig google is my go to place for news, I would also use them to search for ei

I think you are only looking at the most obvious at the expense of everything else. Ig google is my go to place for news, I would also use them to search for either news related or unrelated terms. If all news sites were unlisted from Google but remained on Bing, Bing's search revenue would increase and Google's will decrease. I don't know who makes more money out of the relationship, that is not the problem here. Even if news sites make more moneyz they did not sign a contract with Google accepting this financial relationship. If google treats any sites in a special way to increase their own popularity or brand value, even if that site is already benefiting from the relationship Google must either get all the sites consent or negotiate payment. If a person goes to a news site, the news site makes more moneu but that's a big if. The special treatment means people will glance at headlines and outlines extracted from the news sites and only click on a few sites. This special treatment means less ad clicks for news sites as compared to normal google listings

AnimalMuppet 7y ago
> Even if news sites make more moneyz they did not sign a contract with Google accepting this financial relationship. No, and it also didn't sign a contract with Google where Google accepted responsibility to promote access to the news site's pages, either. So, in the absence of a contract, what determines the way that the relationship between them should be? robots.txt, that's what. If French news sites want to be on the web but not indexed, that's the existing mechanism to control how Google handles the content. But demanding a contract so that Google can legitimately benefit, but not demanding one so that the news site can legitimately benefit, seems rather one-sided to me.
wolco 7y ago
You think people would switch to bing because news sites were delisted? Many of us would be happy to get back non-official news sources back in the first page of google.
- badrabbit 7y ago
  They wouldn't switch but if you are on bing already looking for news you will use bing more which means google less

AnimalMuppet 7y ago

> Even if news sites make more moneyz they did not sign a contract with Google accepting this financial relationship. No, and it also didn't sign a contract with Google where Google accepted responsibility to promote access to the news site's pages, either. So, in the absence of a contract, what determines the way that the relationship between them should be? robots.txt, that's what. If French news sites want to be on the web but not indexed, that's the existing mechanism to control how Google handles the content. But demanding a contract so that Google can legitimately benefit, but not demanding one so that the news site can legitimately benefit, seems rather one-sided to me.

wolco 7y ago

You think people would switch to bing because news sites were delisted? Many of us would be happy to get back non-official news sources back in the first page of google.

badrabbit 7y ago
They wouldn't switch but if you are on bing already looking for news you will use bing more which means google less