Google is a trillion dollar company because people pay to be linked to. The giveaway is that the Drudge Report has been around since the mid 90's but no news c

Google is a trillion dollar company because people pay to be linked to. The giveaway is that the Drudge Report has been around since the mid 90's but no news companies have ever complained about it because they benefit from the traffic that it drives. The reason they go after Google and Facebook is because they have a lot of money to grab, whereas the Drudge Report is tiny compared to the media outlets that it links to.