Re:Google may shut down its news service in Europe
by Brotkrumen on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @05:52AM
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He means that smaller publishers don't have a brand yet where people just browse directly to their site. Those smaller publishers get a disproportionate share of views when one of their article trends on google news.
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Re:Google may shut down its news service in Europe
by candiodari on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @08:04AM
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Look at their financial reports. Unless by "smaller" you mean 99.5% or more of them, you're inaccurate.
The only news services that would survive this regulation are the public/subsidized ones, pretty much. Maybe that's exactly the goal: eliminate independent press.
Re:Google may shut down its news service in Europe
by mcv on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @06:36AM
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I guess the only solution for news sites now is massive mergers into a handful of news giants that do have the brand name to stand on their own without needing links from aggregators.
Of course it would help a lot if they also dramatically revised the way they offer their content on the internet. Many news sites are rather awful.