It's a blatant moneygrab for fossils from a government they have by the balls.
The classified ads have dried up and they're out of ideas.
As for news discovered by regular search, I think that is different because the user has to input specific search keywords and restrict to recent results. The difference is about intention and recurring visits.
The situation seems similar to the Google Books fiasco, where we didn't end up with a searchable online library of out of print books. Lots of arguments were raised back then as now, but the bottom line was that everyone tried to do good for himself and we all got less - the prisoner's dilemma in action.
If it didn't make business sense then Google wouldn't be showing them in the first place. It plainly does make business sense. Google shouldn't be afraid to pay for what it uses.
The want to have their cake and eat it too, plus get paid for the privilege.
Having said this, I have no sympathy for Google either.
https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/australian-news-media-...
Well, nothing except for the fact that their own sites are not compelling enough for customers in order to be profitable, so they don't want to do it.
What do you think this is all about? The ACCC is acting to address the practical realities of the situation. That's what the ACCC is there for.
Just the fact that the ABC and SBS are excluded says it all really. This is clearly not about journalism.
You really are failing to understand this. You must try harder.
I understand and it's ridiculous. Just because your business is not profitable shouldn't mean another business should be forced to subsidise it. Unless you have mates that can make laws, that is.
Lots of interesting things on Robots meta tag:
https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_meta_t...
This money would go to an organisation which largely peddles outrage and division.
Frankly that's Google, Facebook, and Twitter. They are aimed at maximising engagement and outrage does that for them. They keep feeding people what they think they want to see and the further down the rabbit hole they go the weirder and more extreme it gets.
Please, do a google image search for "daily telegraph cover", and then give me your description of the Murdoch news media.
The only way they'd survive is by producing fawning, uncritical reports, like almost every interview done with movie stars.