Google threatens to disable search in Australia if media code becomes law
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#2No great loss based on the excessive amount of commercialisation of the first three or pages of results we seem to get now.
Re: Google threatens to disable search in Australia if media code becomes law
#3No great loss based on the excessive amount of commercialisation of the first three or pages of results we seem to get now.
It happened so gradually I wasn't sure if I was imagining it.
Then I gave a shot using DuckDuckGo for a few days and boy was it apparent how far Google search has fallen.
And to think I resisted DDG for so long based on the silly name, thinking it can't be a serious search engine with that name. But now I realize, "Google" is just as dumb a name, so part of the blame lies with myself.
Re: Google threatens to disable search in Australia if media code becomes law
#4This is un googley behavior
Re: Google threatens to disable search in Australia if media code becomes law
#5If Google threatening to leave can undo the law, than Google knows they can threaten it again and again, any time they don't get what they want.
Stand firm, Australia. Let them leave. You'll be better off without these bullies in your country.
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#6Oh come on Google, surely you can think of a better way to make it screamingly clear to the entire planet that you hold a monopoly that badly needs breaking up ?
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#7I'm not fully understanding the Australian media's issue with Google.
Google shows links or a small snippet of news articles, a user may decide hey I want to read that and clicks the link and goes to the media outlets website to read more. This is driving traffic to media websites?
If it wasn't for Google surfacing the content, unless the user was a daily reader of that specific media outlet that user would never of visited that media outlet to view the article.
I get it if one media outlet is ranked higher than another media outlet that can/may be unfair and some transparency on how news search results are ranked may help, it may also do the reverse if you no the rank algorithm you can game it.
I'm not sure how making Google pay to show a link to a news story helps though other than Murdoch trying to prop up there news properties that look to have reduced readership.
Have I missed anything or miss-understood the problem?
Re: Google threatens to disable search in Australia if media code becomes law
#8While this thread is older, there is a more involved discussion taking place here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25867264
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#9Musk's micro-satellites beat them to market.
Re: Google threatens to disable search in Australia if media code becomes law
#10I'm not fully understanding the Australian media's issue with Google. Google shows links or a small snippet of news articles, a user may decide hey I want to read that and clicks the link and goes to the media outlets website to read more. This is driving traffic to media websites? If it wasn't for Google surfacing the content, unless the user was a daily reader of that specific media outlet that user would never of…
It is a bad precedent to allow governments the power to decide which speech should be heard.