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Re:Canada’s Bill C-18 and Our Search and News Products by pyrale on Thursday June 29, 2023 @04:04PM (#36525955)
> There's no imbalance here: newspapers produce content, search engines/social networks surface and link to it.

As evidenced by the average RoI at Google compared to news organisations.

Re:Canada’s Bill C-18 and Our Search and News Products by tempestn on Thursday June 29, 2023 @05:07PM (#36526718)
I expect you'll find that discontinuing their news linking service in Canada has very little effect on Google's profitability.
Re:Canada’s Bill C-18 and Our Search and News Products by pyrale on Thursday June 29, 2023 @05:10PM (#36526753)
I agree that Canada should probably have targeted their ad service rather than which link they publish.
Re:Canada’s Bill C-18 and Our Search and News Products by throwuwu on Thursday June 29, 2023 @05:12PM (#36526784)
One is the world’s dominant gateway to the internet, the others are a handful of websites.
Re:Canada’s Bill C-18 and Our Search and News Products by amf12 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @05:22PM (#36526917)
> As evidenced by the average RoI at Google compared to news organisations.

Not a good metric.

The ROI difference is because of both entities being in different industries, and other things unrelated to the power balance. We can similarly compare the ROI of a news organization and say a restaurant and lament that there is an imbalance of power.