• @catloaf@lemm.ee
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    812 hours ago

    I’m confused. They said if Google wants to use it, they have to pay, so Google went to remove it, and now they’re saying Google can’t remove it?

    • @moody
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      710 hours ago

      Google is trying to pick and choose who to filter out of results.

      The SEPM claims that Google was preparing to test a scheme that would exclude articles from specific media outlets with which it is in dispute over rights to online news content.

      • @catloaf@lemm.ee
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        79 hours ago

        Yeah. They said they didn’t want Google to do anything without paying, so Google is removing them. Is that not what they wanted?

      • @conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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        48 hours ago

        If those sites think that being linked to is a service they’re providing Google (which demanding payment implies), then Google is just fulfilling their wishes.

  • @Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    713 hours ago

    Considering that some searches right now tend to be thirty different “news” sites republishing the same article… I dunno how to feel about this.

    • @Squizzy@lemmy.world
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      29 hours ago

      That was always the way, big news pulled from the likes of the AP and Reuters and rephrased. A lot of today’s just isnt rephrased.