Exactly, 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 may

Exactly, 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...