Google’s Going to Regret Its Australia Search Threat

Re:Google’s Going to Regret Its Australia Search Threat by proto-n on Saturday January 23, 2021 @09:38AM (#25882505)

> Google’s Going to Regret Its Australia Search Threat

> But issuing threats isn’t going win them any favors.

I like how the first and last lines are counter-threats, but there's absolutely no mention of how google is going to regret this. Are they going to force google to participate in a market that the company wants to pull out of? How?

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Re:Google’s Going to Regret Its Australia Search Threat by supergirl on Saturday January 23, 2021 @09:56AM (#25882641)

furthermore the article says this:

> It responded to similar legislative efforts in France and Spain by eliminating news from its search results — a move that ultimately resulted in a new agreement with publishers to pay them for content. The details of this remain unclear, but such agreements generally result in relatively insubstantial payments.

so this is a technique that google used before with good results. a better title "google should be made to regret its threat"

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