Google to stop showing news snippets for French users

Re:Google to stop showing news snippets for French users by michaelmrose on Saturday September 28, 2019 @10:25AM (#21100443)

Why should they pay publishers for the privilege of promoting the publishers content? It's not like a snippet is a substitute for the content.

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Re:Google to stop showing news snippets for French users by eitland on Saturday September 28, 2019 @11:18AM (#21100765)

I'm not saying this is a good idea.

I'm saying publishers convinced EU that it was a good idea and now they got what they deserved instead of what they wanted.

It also feels right that Google should pay, but I want them to pay ordinary VAT / sales tax on ad sales instead of this.

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Re:Google to stop showing news snippets for French users by shkkmo on Saturday September 28, 2019 @03:51PM (#21102475)

> I want them to pay ordinary VAT / sales tax on ad sales instead of this.

that would make far more sense

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Re:Google to stop showing news snippets for French users by pas on Saturday September 28, 2019 @06:56PM (#21103587)

It many times is a perfectly good substitute.

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Re:Google to stop showing news snippets for French users by michaelmrose on Saturday September 28, 2019 @11:45PM (#21104913)

Any content that can be replaced by 1 sentence is of negligible value.

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Re:Google to stop showing news snippets for French users by pas on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @01:46AM (#21122384)

news is 99.9% of the time just that. Who What Wher When. The Why and How, How do we know, and How does it compare makes it journalism.

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