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> The choice given to Google is either you link news and pay Aussie firms, or you offer zero news at all. Well then, bundle all news site indexing into a stand
by dingaling 6y ago
> The choice given to Google is either you link news and pay Aussie firms, or you offer zero news at all.
Well then, bundle all news site indexing into a standalone Google News ( not available in .au ) product and declutter the standard search engine.
Everyone would benefit from cleaner search results and if they want to search trending news they'd just have to click the news tab.
- golem14 6y agoI think it's not as simple as that. What's classified as "News" ? A lab in japan, or Tesla having a press release on new battery tech ? A website update from USGS on the Kilauea eruption ? A new project on hackaday ? Google probably does not want to be in a position where a creative lawyer hauls them into an AU court for imagined harm to the AU news companies losing out on opportunities to monetize. It's a hard call, and I can believe it if they say it may be better to move entirely out of Australia. No presence whatsoever. It was a hard call to determine how to deal with China as well, and I don't quite know where things stand there now. There's a long and contorted history.