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Re:Google’s Going to Regret Its Australia Search Threat by silexia on Saturday January 23, 2021 @11:12AM (#25883285)
Australia's law simply breaks how a search engine works. The search engine's job is just to return the user the links to answers to their question. The provider of that answer can do whatever they wish to monetize the user. A search engine does not make enough money to pay any website it links to.

Google is not making threats, it is making a plainly obvious statement that anyone who works around the search engine industry would recognize.

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Re:Google’s Going to Regret Its Australia Search Threat by d58wfq7ps on Saturday January 23, 2021 @02:33PM (#25885324)
Yup, presumably the majority of companies would happily waive the right to those royalties for the privilege to be included in the results at all.

Because the alternative is google stops including you and you might as well not exist.

The idea that bing or duckduckgo could provide you that service for free while paying the publisher is a joke.

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