It's amazing how much robots.txt, nosnippet, and noindex are ignored in the reporting and comments about this topic. The controls are already there for Google t

It's amazing how much robots.txt, nosnippet, and noindex are ignored in the reporting and comments about this topic. The controls are already there for Google to do whatever the news outlets want. The anti-Google argument in this case should be along the lines that they force the news organizations into a prisoner's dilemma. They might be better off if none showed snippets but as long as some are they are better off showing them.