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by Phlogistique
1968 days ago
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> News companies cannot demand payment while they demand that Google indexes their pages for them You have got it wrong. Nobody asks of Google that they pay for indexing news sites in Google Search. And no news company wants to force Google to include their content in Google News. The thing is there are two different services, Google News and Google Search. The news companies have a beef with Google News. Google has been saying: if you do not accept us using your content in Google News, we will remove you from Google Search. |
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That's 100% what the French media asked for.
What they wanted was essentially for Google to pay them a "You make money doing what we used to have a monopoly on" tax; they got mad when Google dodged the tax by following the letter of the EUCD and removing quoted snippets from searches.