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If the news sites honestly assert "that those links provide very little value to the news site and a heap of value to Google" then they can't really object if G
by PeterisP 6y ago
If the news sites honestly assert "that those links provide very little value to the news site and a heap of value to Google" then they can't really object if Google and Facebook stops providing these links. As they are objecting, then it seems that this assertion wasn't really true and that their bluff got called.
- stephen_g 6y agoExactly, and the fact that they hadn’t exercised their power by blocking Google with robots.txt to try and bring them to the table was a huge indicator that maybe they weren’t being honest. What they were saying was absolutely ludicrous. Somebody from News Ltd. said with a straight face that Google probably owes them $1bn a year - a full quarter of all Google’s Australian revenue across all their products! Either they’re crazy liars, or seriously extremely deluded as to how important their news results are to Google’s revenue...