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by elpool2 1018 days ago
They have to pay for showing links, and those links do send traffic to news sites. That is indisputable.

You’re phrasing is just incorrect, honestly. Linking to a website is not at all taking the site’s “content”. And monetizing search results doesn’t do anything “at the newspaper’s expense”, what expense has a news site incurred by someone sharing a link to their site?