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Google is corporation, of course it's for their benefit. Google is paying news organizations to stop chastising them for hurting their revenues. While they're
by tumetab1 6y ago
Google is corporation, of course it's for their benefit.
Google is paying news organizations to stop chastising them for hurting their revenues. While they're at it, also coup some good PR.
Does a reader want free* paywalled news? You have to use google.
Does a news org want a pie of the Google free* news budget? You have to partner with Google.
Solidifies even more Google position as an immovable object. One less reason not to use Google Search/News. One less reason for not relying on Google for revenues.
One less reason for everyone to question Google market position and do anything about it.
- alkonaut 6y ago> Google is corporation, of course it's for their benefit. I'm thinking a diverse web that isn't controlled by another big actor might be enough of a long term benefit to google. Some times I get the feeling that these huge actors don't necessarily silo everything because they necessarily think it's a good idea, but because if they don't someone else will and that's a bad thing.
- throwanem 6y agoIf there's one lesson to be drawn from the decade of Google just past, it's that they do not see a diverse web uncontrolled by large actors as beneficial to them. They want the web controlled by a big actor which is them. "We have to silo things so no one else will" is an excuse for bad behavior, and a risible one at that. If Google wanted a web that couldn't be siloed, they have the money and brains to build that. They choose to build silos instead.