[michaelmrose]

They only win in this context if people use a different search engine that does pay to show snippets.

If people still use Google to find results but have to go on just title and publication to figure out what link to click which spoiler alert they already mostly do then you have 2 net effects.

Searching for news is slightly more cumbersome and resources that do allow snippets will get slightly more clicks from people who can read both.

Who wins in that context?

[conradfr]

Except if people click the links more instead of reading only the snippets.

[michaelmrose]

This would only be likely if lack of snippets means people click more wrong links but I think prior experiences show people clicking less not more

[conradfr]

Yes entirely plausible, I guess we'll another data for that soon then.