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It would seem that Google could quickly kill this law by de-indexing all the relevant newspapers, right now. Why are they waiting?
by conanite 14y ago
It would seem that Google could quickly kill this law by de-indexing all the relevant newspapers, right now. Why are they waiting?
- belorn 14y agoNo one likes to burn bridges, even if they get sued. They could do a "this is how google would look if you go through with this" day, but for now they look to be taking the more safe route with lawyers.
- boboblong 14y agoSo, in other words, the posters defending Google are being totally disingenuous when they claim that Google couldn't care less about these petulant little publishers and that the publishers need Google far more than vice versa. Apparently, Google really doesn't want to take these publishers off Google News.
- netcan 14y agoWhy would that kill the law? All it would do is make Google news useless for German news.
- conanite 14y agoMy guess is that if newspaper sites lose a big chunk of their traffic they might reconsider who should be paying whom. I'm also guessing that without support from newspapers, the law is less likely to get through.
- netcan 14y agoPresumably the newspapers are aware this might happen happen. Then (in their minds) people will just go to the actual newspaper to see the headlines.