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Google claims news is worthless to its ad business after test involving 1% of search results in eight EU markets. (blog.google)

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Google ran an experiment to understand the value of European news content. The data shows people visited Google only slightly less often when this content was removed, and Google’s ad revenue did not significantly change.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (7 children)

If that's what the French want, then it's Google's obligation to comply and simply adjust advertising rates as needed.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Google is pointing out that the news sites need google more than google needs the news sites.

This sort of thing happens every once in a while; some country's news organizations think that google should have to pay them for the privilege of helping people find their sites. Google responds by blacklisting news sites from that country. The news sites suffer more than google does, and they reverse the decision.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's a symptom of Google holding a monopoly over search results.

Real reporting will always cost more to produce than AI-generated propaganda, and if the former has a paywall and the latter doesn't, people will inevitably end up reading the news that takes the least effort to produce, to the detriment of actual news reporting.

Requiring Google to both carry such content and pay for it at least ensures that it has an even footing with websites seeking to push propaganda instead.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I think it's problematic to require an organization to do something and then charge for it. It's one thing if they do something of their own volition and then are required to pay

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