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Re:Google's Live from Paris Event Private/Deleted Immediately by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @10:37AM (#34709501)
Nadella was asked about this. He basically said that they have a responsibility to drive users to sites with click through or else sites won't have an incentive to be crawled.

How that pans out in practice remains to be seen.

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Re:Google's Live from Paris Event Private/Deleted Immediately by rchaud on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:07AM (#34710031)
> He basically said that they have a responsibility to drive users to sites with click through or else sites won't have an incentive to be crawled.

This is partially a BS answer. As long as websites are running Google Ads, they will have an incentive to be crawled. Fewer clicks > no clicks (which is what would happen if the site was set to 'noindex'.

Google also pays news publishers to license their content; $1bn alone just for Google News Showcase [0]

[0] https://blog.google/supportingnews/#overview

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