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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] 1 points 1 day ago

I don't know. I go to news portals or aggregates or feeds for news. Do people actually just type "news" into Google? I suppose for specific events, but I could actually see it being true that news searches weren't making up much of the activity. The way it's going to be is subscription based or publicly funded for anything worthwhile