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If I search for "Victorians Expecting The Very Worst After Dan Andrews Spotted Making A North Face Run" using google.com.au[1], the first result is for an artic
by dhx 6y ago
If I search for "Victorians Expecting The Very Worst After Dan Andrews Spotted Making A North Face Run" using google.com.au[1], the first result is for an article of The Betoota Advocate[2], which is indeed what I had searched for. Unfortunately this esteemed news organisation is highly unlikely to meet a long list of criteria for a registered news business corporation or news business or whatever and therefore wouldn't qualify to be paid anything under this proposed legislation.
Instead of remunerating the obvious party, will Google instead be paying the registered news business corporations corresponding to the 5 news articles that show up in the top 10 search results for this query? The other 4 search results would miss out on being paid as they consist of 2 social media discussions of the first result, an international news organisation and an international news aggregation website.
What if instead I search for "Ancient Egyptians collected wild ibis birds for sacrifice, says study"[3] which brings up the original press release from an Australian University[4] as the third result. All other results returned are for the most part a copy and paste of the original press release and include a WikiNews article, two Australian media organisations ([6] copied from [5] copied from the original [4]) and a number of international science news websites and international media organisations. Who is Google paying in this scenario and why should anyone be paid anything for copying and pasting a press release that is returned by a Google search result? It looks like this question is unanswered according to section 52X which states it's up to companies like Google to figure it out after this legislation comes into effect:
> The responsible digital platform corporation for the designated digital platform service must ensure that: (a) a proposal is developed for the designated digital platform service to recognise original covered news content when it makes available and distributes that content
[1] https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Victorians%20Expecting%20The%20Very%20Worst%20After%20Dan%20Andrews%20Spotted%20Making%20A%20North%20Face%20Run https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Victorians%20Expecting...
[2] https://www.betootaadvocate.com/headlines/victorians-expecting-the-very-worst-after-dan-andrews-spotted-making-a-north-face-run/ https://www.betootaadvocate.com/headlines/victorians-expecti...
[3] https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Ancient%20Egyptians%20collected%20wild%20ibis%20birds%20for%20sacrifice,%20says%20study https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Ancient%20Egyptians%20...
[4] https://news.griffith.edu.au/2019/11/14/genetic-analysis-suggests-wise-bin-chickens-tamed-and-sacrificed-to-egyptian-god/ https://news.griffith.edu.au/2019/11/14/genetic-analysis-sug...
[5] https://theconversation.com/holy-bin-chickens-ancient-egyptians-tamed-wild-ibis-for-sacrifice-126186 https://theconversation.com/holy-bin-chickens-ancient-egypti...
[6] https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6494482/how-egyptians-tamed-the-bin-chicken/ https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6494482/how-egyptians...