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News sites are so special that Google has a separate and distinct section for them: Google News.

• wutbrodo 6y ago
  That just means they form a coherent vertical, as do retail sites (Google shopping), brick-and-mortar stores/venues/restaurants (Google maps), flights (Google flights), hotels (Google hotels), etc. You're really straining the definition of the word "special". It's especially inapplicable to the parent comment's referenced claim, that they're special enough that Google needs to be legally forced into an unwilling transaction with them.