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While it's true that it's not their fault, it's a shame that they've folded to the pressures of the media lobby. But I don't blame them, business is business.

by kolme 11y ago

While it's true that it's not their fault, it's a shame that they've folded to the pressures of the media lobby. But I don't blame them, business is business. You can't just let the major content creators go to the competence, even if they're massive asshats.

thirdsun 11y ago
Well, at least here in Germany Google required publishers to waive their right to be paid or Google just wouldn't index their content in the news section (search wasn't affected at all). And in my mind, rightly so, a brilliant move. Of course all those publishers gave in since you obviously can't force Google to pay for content (snippets of it!) it actually doesn't need/want all that badly, while publishers on the other hand really, really wanted to be indexed. This recent development is probably more of an answer to the EU monopoly investigation, where Google tries to show that they can behave.