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Nose, face, cut, spite: Blocking Google
- jacquesm 17y ago“How empty would the first 10 Google search results be if one could no longer find anything from the 148 German publishers?” That question makes absolutely no sense at all, from googles point of view nothing would change. There would simply be other sites now lower on the ladder that would move up. In fact, for every 'major' news outlet that does this a bunch of smaller ones will benefit.
- makmanalp 17y agoIt's pretty funny how people's perceptions of their own significance are so bloated, especially in comparison with reality.
- NathanKP 17y agoI liked the point made by the author that other publishers are going to rejoice if News Corp pulls out of search results. They are just going to snap up those top ranking search positions really fast. We'll see an explosion of news blogs fighting over positions that used to belong to major News Corp sites. Then when News Corp tries to get back in they are going to be crippled and have to fight their way back up through the ranks.