They have to pay for showing links, and those links do send traffic to news sites. That is indisputable. You’re phrasing is just incorrect, honestly. Linking t

They have to pay for showing links, and those links do send traffic to news sites. That is indisputable. You’re phrasing is just incorrect, honestly. Linking to a website is not at all taking the site’s “content”. And monetizing search results doesn’t do anything “at the newspaper’s expense”, what expense has a news site incurred by someone sharing a link to their site?