[HN Gopher] Google says it will disable Search in Australia if i...
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Google says it will disable Search in Australia if it's forced to
pay for news
Author : origgm
Score : 8 points
Date : 2021-01-22 21:45 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.engadget.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.engadget.com)
| zelon88 wrote:
| On the one hand, Google plagarizes everything. Search for "how to
| boil an egg" and Google will paraphrase the answer for you so you
| don't even have to click anything.
|
| That means Google essentially takes the ad revenue right out of
| the mouth of content creators whom Google relies on.
|
| On the other hand Australia needs to recognize that they are
| playing someone else's game. If Australia wants the boon of
| having Google popularize their content they can't expect to push
| Google around.
|
| On a side note: I find it ironic that nobody looked twice at how
| the record labels killed competition. Nobody cared that oil
| companies sandbagged renewable energy for 60+ years. All these
| conservative companies who's lobbyists literally created American
| capitalism were fine with immoral behavior so long as they were
| the ones flying the "trickle down" flag. Now that "liberal"
| (read: progressive) tech companies played the capitalism home
| game and won all those once too big to fail industries are
| screaming that social media is too big and cancel culture, once
| the nation driver of our economy, is now bad.
|
| Gee, it wasn't bad when you ran the world. At least tech
| companies pay a livable wage.
| lesserknowndan wrote:
| Ironically, as you describe that most search results provide
| scrapped content, Google provides more flow through traffic to
| news organizations than they do the rest of the Internet. For
| news, you need to click through to get more than the headline.
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