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Re:Google threatens to cut off news after California propose... by abdullahkhalids on Friday April 12, 2024 @05:21PM (#40017801)
There is a business relationship between Walmart/Costco and the product or a competitor of the product. In the Google News case, there is no business relation with any news site (Alphabet ads might have a relation with the news site, but that is not Google News).
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Re:Google threatens to cut off news after California propose... by lupire on Saturday April 13, 2024 @08:06AM (#40022600)
Google News is a customer who walks into Walmart consumes the free samples and tells people about them.

Walmart is free to ban Google from the premises (robots.txt) or to negotiate an exchange (monetization agreement).

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