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Yes, but those link-farms get de-ranked by Google (which is a good thing IMO). Google is pretending that their particular case of linking is legitimate and dese
by pompino 3y ago
Yes, but those link-farms get de-ranked by Google (which is a good thing IMO). Google is pretending that their particular case of linking is legitimate and deserves fair-use protection.
- kemayo 3y agoI don't think Google is pretending. Its linking is legitimate. Also, it feels strange to draw an equivalence between Google downranking a spam website and the government charging to link to things.
- pompino 3y agoThere is no difference between content/link farms and what Google is doing - its copy/pasting someone else's words on a website and surrounding them with ads. _Neither_ are deserving of fair-use protections.
- kemayo 3y agoI don't think we're going to agree on this one.
- pompino 3y agoSure, I can respect that.
- philipkglass 3y agoGoogle News does not show ads.
- pompino 3y agohttps://news.googleblog.com/2009/02/ads-in-google-news-search-results.html https://news.googleblog.com/2009/02/ads-in-google-news-searc... https://support.google.com/googlenews/thread/2165411/how-do-i-block-ads-that-are-disguised-as-news-stories?hl=en https://support.google.com/googlenews/thread/2165411/how-do-...