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The legislation explicitly prevents platforms from deindexing/downranking news sites that participate in the code in favour of other sites that do not. Which p
by boloust 6y ago
The legislation explicitly prevents platforms from deindexing/downranking news sites that participate in the code in favour of other sites that do not.
Which places Google in a more difficult position, because if a user searches for some news, Google is essentially forced to return results from a participating news organisation, or not show any relevant news results at all.
While Facebook can just prevent users from sharing any news links, Google can't exactly stop users from searching for news.
- floatingatoll 6y agoGoogle absolutely can stop users from searching for News, by removing all News tabs, News boxes, and News News-specific metadata uses (such as current events timeliness) in search results at Google.com.au. They can then legitimately claim that they are no longer indexing news, only websites in general, and if site operators don’t wish to be indexed they can follow the standard practices for exclusion. Whether they (Google) will do so or not is a timely question to consider.
- johnnyYen 6y agoI'd think Google could easily get around this by limiting the frequency with which their GoogleBot visits News Corp web sites to, say, once a month. Effectively makes being indexed worthless for News Corp.