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Australia really should not have done this. This didn't work in Spain. It won't work in Australia.

• rafaelturk 6y ago
  Can you elaborate?
  • BLKNSLVR 6y ago
    Not OP and very basically: Roughly the same situation occurred in Spain, Google stopped their Spanish News service and Spanish news media revenue went down a non-trivial percentage.
    • rurban 6y ago
      Didn't the same thing happen in Germany also? German news demanded a certain percentage of ad revenue from Google if they continue to copy content from them for their preview. Was that already solved? Ah yes, Google won this lawsuit. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-germany-publishers/google-wins-legal-battle-with-german-publishers-over-fee-demands-idUSKCN1VX0R2 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-germany-publishers...
      • brummm 6y ago
        The EU is not Australia, so court cases in the EU have 0 impact on Australian ones, no? Further, it seems that Google won through a technicality, that the European Commission hadn't been notified of the new regulation and on these ground the case was dismissed. That's very different from actually ruling on the underlying issue.
    • gonzo41 6y ago
      If Australian news was of the quality of the washington post, or Deutsche Welle, I'd pay for it. But it's not, and Australians love talking about price signals.