> Of course, the change could reduce traffic to French news sites. Google says that if news sites want Google to start showing snippets again, they just have to give Google permission to do so.

> This isn't what advocates of the law had in mind.

Yeah... I think a bunch of us here expected exactly this outcome. Warned about it, even.

> Their goal wasn't to make European news sites less prominent in search results—it was to convince Google to start paying licensing fees. But Google is signaling that it has no intention of doing that.

Good for Google.