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French regulator says Google must pay news sites to send them traffic

by renchap on 4/9/20, 10:06 PM with 5 comments

  • by simonblack on 4/9/20, 11:30 PM

    The last time this policy was threatened (by Belgium?? IIRC) Google merely cut those websites completely out of the search results. In a matter of weeks those websites were seeing their internet traffic drop to practically nil.

    Then it was "Google, please!"

  • by pepe56 on 4/11/20, 5:48 AM

    It seems like Google disabled excerpts to news sites in France back in September 2019 leaving the search results only with the headlines/titles of news pages. What the French do there sounds incredibly unfair and I am certainly not a fan of Google.
  • by rvnx on 4/9/20, 11:16 PM

    There is a side-question about this, are search engine even legal at all, by violating copyrights by publishing excerpts of websites (or full content like lyrics) in their search results without owner consent.