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Wait, who wins here? Google would presumably stop returning results for Spanish content to avoiding getting charged, resulting in dropped traffic, and less ad
by balls187 12y ago
Wait, who wins here?
Google would presumably stop returning results for Spanish content to avoiding getting charged, resulting in dropped traffic, and less ad dollars.
- mvid 12y agoBut then Google would be a less valuable search engine. I guess they would sue and eat it in the meantime.
- x0x0 12y agoThe hypothesis is that google is, on the whole, parasitic to news organizations. I think, unlike the hysteria on HN, that it is far from obvious this is wrong. We'll hopefully get to see the results of the experiment.
- cromwellian 12y agoLooks like the experiment has a good chance of being run soon. If News and Search drop these sites, we'll see whether the 'parasite' has been good or bad for the host.
- timdierks 12y agoIf this were true, presumably some smart news organizations would be blocking Google from extracting this value by excluding themselves from the index via robots.txt, yet I'm not aware of any.
- x1798DE 12y agoIt seems Rupert Murdoch did this with NewsCorp about 5 years ago, and the decision seems to have been reversed since then: http://www.ibtimes.com/rupert-murdoch-vs-google-google-wins-796615 http://www.ibtimes.com/rupert-murdoch-vs-google-google-wins-...
- x0x0 12y agothere's an obvious collective action problem that this law fixes
- Oletros 12y agoWhat obvious collective action problem is fixed with this law?