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They are, media sites are also free to opt out of google indexing.

• morelisp 6y ago
  Indexing in Google's search engine to be included in response to user queries should be decoupled from being excerpted in Google's pretend newspaper front page.
  • mjevans 6y ago
    I disagree about news.google.com being a 'newspaper frontpage'. If I wanted newspapers I'd individually visit each 'paper' online. What I value is a broad summary of the different news topics that exist at any given moment and links to more details. Through that generalized (and if I provide keywords, more specific) lens on the world Google's News offering provides value not found in any single publisher's biased view of the world.
    • morelisp 6y ago
      If this was the intended use case Google would present it as a tool to enter a news article and it would show you all articles it believed were equivalent coverage. (i.e. what is now hidden behind "View Full Coverage" and without judgement about "Top Coverage" etc.) Instead it is structured almost exactly like a newspaper front page, right down to the damn weather report.