Spain's 'Google tax'

Re:Spain's 'Google tax' by MarkMc on Saturday July 26, 2014 @09:53PM (#8091678)

How is this a Google Tax? Websites indexed by Google give permission in their robots.txt file (or lack thereof)

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Re:Spain's 'Google tax' by wmf on Saturday July 26, 2014 @10:30PM (#8091758)

The publishers view robots.txt as a catch-22: be indexed and lose money or refuse to be indexed and lose money. So they're trying a third option: demand to be indexed and demand to be paid.

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Re:Spain's 'Google tax' by x0x0 on Saturday July 26, 2014 @11:32PM (#8091879)

how exactly does this require indexing?

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