• moody@lemmings.world
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    13 days ago

    Google is trying to pick and choose who to filter out of results.

    The SEPM claims that Google was preparing to test a scheme that would exclude articles from specific media outlets with which it is in dispute over rights to online news content.

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      13 days ago

      Yeah. They said they didn’t want Google to do anything without paying, so Google is removing them. Is that not what they wanted?

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      13 days ago

      If those sites think that being linked to is a service they’re providing Google (which demanding payment implies), then Google is just fulfilling their wishes.