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It seems to me that people are completely misunderstanding this. It's a product that already existed in some other countries. It has nothing to do with showing
by jsnell 6y ago
It seems to me that people are completely misunderstanding this. It's a product that already existed in some other countries. It has nothing to do with showing news sites in search results, or more generally with that Australian law.
Though I am a bit confused, because it looks like they already said two months ago that they had Australian publications signed up. What's actually new here?
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoSo News Showcase appears to be their end run around reality that they need to pay for news content they scrape with Search: They rolled it out with a plan to pay publishers to be a part of it, including the ability to use the content in Search, while claiming they are not actually paying for Search content. But the biggest news is just that Australia called Google's bluff, and is going to pay up for the content they scrape.
- jsnell 6y agoI don’t understand where you are getting this from. This is not stopping the scraping of news sites that do not participate, so it cannot be payment for scraping or showing the site in search results. It fulfills basically none of the requirements of the law. This is not letting the news sites name their price. I do not think there is any promise that every news org is guaranteed to be able to participate. This is not giving them the advance info on algorithm changes. And Australia is not the first country they rolled this out in. This already exists elsewhere, in countries that did not try to come up with laws so Draconian that Google threatened to leave. I bet that Murdoch etc do not consider this any kind of victory. They will continue pressing for the law.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoI see it as Google's attempt to offer a compromise. I agree that Australia probably isn't backing down, but it's clear Google knows it is going to have to pay one way or the other.