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Re:Spain's 'Google tax' by x0x0 on Saturday July 26, 2014 @11:34PM (#8091881)
The hypothesis is that google is, on the whole, parasitic to news organizations. I think, unlike the hysteria on HN, that it is far from obvious this is wrong. We'll hopefully get to see the results of the experiment.
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Re:Spain's 'Google tax' by cromwellian on Saturday July 26, 2014 @11:40PM (#8091888)
Looks like the experiment has a good chance of being run soon. If News and Search drop these sites, we'll see whether the 'parasite' has been good or bad for the host.
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Re:Spain's 'Google tax' by timdierks on Sunday July 27, 2014 @12:12AM (#8091940)
If this were true, presumably some smart news organizations would be blocking Google from extracting this value by excluding themselves from the index via robots.txt, yet I'm not aware of any.
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Re:Spain's 'Google tax' by x1798DE on Sunday July 27, 2014 @12:47AM (#8092025)
It seems Rupert Murdoch did this with NewsCorp about 5 years ago, and the decision seems to have been reversed since then: http://www.ibtimes.com/rupert-murdoch-vs-google-google-wins-...
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Re:Spain's 'Google tax' by x0x0 on Sunday July 27, 2014 @01:09AM (#8092058)
there's an obvious collective action problem that this law fixes
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Re:Spain's 'Google tax' by Oletros on Sunday July 27, 2014 @02:44AM (#8092156)
What obvious collective action problem is fixed with this law?
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