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I was at Facebook working on ranking when a similar thing happened with Australia. Showing news is a net negative for Facebook and probably not very positive f
by mgraczyk 3y ago
I was at Facebook working on ranking when a similar thing happened with Australia.
Showing news is a net negative for Facebook and probably not very positive for Google. Facebook's short and long term metrics were better without news. Facebook and Google are basically doing charity when they link to local news sites. These laws make absolutely no sense when you think about that.
- cubefox 3y agoWell, the users of Facebook/Google would like to link to those sites, and Facebook/Google would like to keep those users...
- mgraczyk 3y agoYes the users want that content, but generally not as much as they want other content that Facebook could show instead
- esperent 3y agoI think this is one of those things where you might think that, and the numbers might show it, and yet if you remove it human nature will surprise you. People expect to be able to find and share everything, including the long tail of their interests. If they suddenly can't, they'll look for alternatives. In the case of Google, there are a lot of alternatives and while Google just keeps getting worse, the alternatives are better then ever. Even if a person only searches for news items a few times a month, if they suddenly can't do that, they'll just go find an alternative search engine.