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Re:Tim Berners-Lee says Australian media pay law would make ... by jowsie on Friday February 19, 2021 @09:51AM (#26193744)
They do want to show up on google, they just don't want the small page summary, as in a lot of cases, most people are happy with the title and a 2 line summary, never actually visiting the article.
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee says Australian media pay law would make ... by stephen_g on Friday February 19, 2021 @09:57AM (#26193817)
That’s possible for a site to do, as far as I’m aware (in webmaster tools?) - I’ve seen results with a title and link and “this website doesn’t allow us to show a preview before).

This ‘debate’ in Australia is not actually about that - most people supporting the bill haven’t been able to make an argument with enough complexity to distinguish between the sentence or so summary and displaying the whole article, and they generally try to make it sound like the latter is happening!

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee says Australian media pay law would make ... by Symbiote on Friday February 19, 2021 @10:03AM (#26193890)
It's done with meta tags in the HTML:

https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_meta_t...

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