• catloaf@lemm.ee
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    20 days 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@lemmings.world
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      20 days 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.

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        20 days 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?

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        20 days 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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    20 days 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.

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      20 days 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.