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This seems absurd. Companies typically pay Google to drive traffic through ads, but in this case they are legislating that Google pay them for driving traffic?
by travisoneill1 6y ago
This seems absurd. Companies typically pay Google to drive traffic through ads, but in this case they are legislating that Google pay them for driving traffic? This sounds like the store paying the customer to take its product. Wouldn't the obvious solution be for Google to just stop listing these news sites? Am I missing something here?
- lopis 6y agoYou can make a case that Google wouldn't make any money if they didn't have content. They have trained the market into believing we need them and to pay them unholy amounts of money to be on top of all search results. But without content and search results, no one uses Google.
- rightbyte 6y agoGoogle has also started to show generated answers/summaries in the search to make the user not visit the external site. Answers and image search should be opt in for copright holder.
- travisoneill1 6y agoRight, but site owners are already able to opt out of being indexed by google, and almost all choose to be indexed.