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Italy's antitrust watchdog is investigating Google

• dotcoma 17y ago
  yeah, good idea. The Prime Minister here owns 3 tv channels and somehow more or less controls RAI's other 3 national channels, and they investigate Google...
  • ilyak 17y ago
    Well, I think we all agree that google agregating your news should be opt-out, and the threats to stop search-engine-indexing site which doesn't allow its news to be on unrelated news-aggregator service is ridiculous. So that ridiculousness is worth investigation, sure. On other hand, I don't see why newspapers would object aggregating their articles into google news. Google news is all about links to the newspaper sites; it's a source of clicks, not a way to steal content.
    • matstc 17y ago
      I'm also curious about why companies might want to opt out of the news aggregator. Although I'm wondering why companies even have a say in it. Isn't the aggregation involved fair use? If I start my own news aggregator do I have to ask publishing companies permission? I feel like I should be able to just aggregate them whether they like it or not.
    • sahaj 17y ago
      can't they just setup robots.txt?