Google ordered to remove news

Google News doesn't show the whole article, only a summary with a link to the original page. So how is this detrimental? If anything, google is advertising their publications...

I can understand the porn merchants being upset with google image search, but I don't get this one. If google news doesn't show results from these publications, the belgians who are searching for news will get it from Germany, France and the Netherlands instead... how is that helping the local news media?

Sometimes I don't understand Europeans...
 
If anything, Google News focuses people's attention towards specific articles that would otherwise never be read, which means increased advert revenue from every additional click to an article page that gets rendered, IOW a good thing.

This whole thing smacks of some crazy USA-type law-suite and never needed to go to court in the first place - if Copiepresse didn't want Google [News] to index news articles then why not unsubscribe the site(s) from being indexed & listed in the first place?

Suffer Copiepresse suffer - your site(s) will see much less traffic...
 
Talk about taking the short view.

Google now takes the site off all their servers. Bye bye getting visitors from the world's most used search engine too.
 
arf9999 said:
Google News doesn't show the whole article, only a summary with a link to the original page. So how is this detrimental?
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It's "detrimental" to the big news outlets, because it 'levels the playing field' in that it directs billions of visitors to smaller lesser-known news publications, few of which would ever have been visited much at all if they hadn't been placed essentially 'side by side' as equals with the major outlets on Google's News page. Before this kind of news aggregation, the 'big boys' could just rely on riding on their names to get visitors/hits. Now nobody gets special treatment - on Google's news page, thousands of news outlets basically 'compete' relatively equally. It's a bit like a massive news 'marketplace'.

If google news doesn't show results from these publications, the belgians who are searching for news will get it from Germany, France and the Netherlands instead... how is that helping the local news media?
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Yup, they're fighting a losing battle, and are going to suffer as a result, I think. You can't stop this kind of news aggregation, so better to at least be part of the marketplace than not in it at all.
 
Damn, where will I get my fix of French- and German-language Belgian news now? :(

People can be so petty sometimes, no?
 
Turtle said:
It's "detrimental" to the big news outlets, because it 'levels the playing field' in that it directs billions of visitors to smaller lesser-known news publications, few of which would ever have been visited much at all if they hadn't been placed essentially 'side by side' as equals with the major outlets on Google's News page. Before this kind of news aggregation, the 'big boys' could just rely on riding on their names to get visitors/hits. Now nobody gets special treatment - on Google's news page, thousands of news outlets basically 'compete' relatively equally. It's a bit like a massive news 'marketplace'.


Yup, they're fighting a losing battle, and are going to suffer as a result, I think. You can't stop this kind of news aggregation, so better to at least be part of the marketplace than not in it at all.
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Actually I think I read that Google owns a patent which describes giving more weight to 'trustworthy' news outlets, but I suppose that would be secure a stories authenticy and then the first source is shown

but then looking at google news atm i seems that reputable outlets are being shown the most ...
 
Wow some good counter-arguments made in this thread. I think these papers are too scared to try anything new. Maybe a month off Google will give them website stats heart attacks, and they'll come running back to Google......?
 
They are loosing and winning(?)

in once sense the newspaper does loose a certain amount of control,but people get drawn to their website via google.on the otherhand it might direct more user to one certain newspaper and not to another! o dear what now? :p
 
kilps said:
but then looking at google news atm i seems that reputable outlets are being shown the most ...
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Generally true, but I also see plenty of relatively obscure smaller outlets like "Malaysia Star" and "Advertiser Adelaide" and "The Tennessean" and "Fort Worth Star Telegram" that I never in my life would have known existed let alone visited unless they'd been on Google's news page. And importantly, all the blurbs look so indistinct and 'unbranded' that one usually just clicks on whatever looks interesting without even taking note of the source - there must definitely be an equalising effect going on. One barely cares where the news is coming from.
 
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