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krum t1_j9wn21y wrote

Google should be billing news orgs to be aggregated. I don't know how they keep screwing this up.

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daniel_bran t1_j9yaxuo wrote

Google cannot exist without these orgs content.

Google does not produce content.

Google is a parasite that takes other websites content and puts its own ads on it to make a buck off others sweat

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vikumwijekoon97 t1_j9ybsfd wrote

Google can easily exist without them. Do you really think people actually give a fuck about news now? In Canada the first actual news website comes at 37 in visits. 3 porn websites have more numbers than the top news website

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vikumwijekoon97 t1_j9ytshu wrote

Nah I just happen to understand how leverage works. This is news corporations trying to bite the hand that feeds them. Like what can they actually do if Google decides to not to show them? Make their own search engine?

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gliffy t1_j9yeork wrote

This is such an unbelievably stupid comment that it's hard to believe. How does the average person find news to read without a search engine?

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danielnogo t1_j9zokkk wrote

Lol, this is just blatantly, stupidly false, the internet wouldn't exist in its current form without search engines making websites easily findable and accessible, you obviously weren't around back in the day before search engines became a big thing, you had to hear of websites by basically word of mouth. I'd love to see you create something that can catalog billions of websites and deliver search results about them in fractions of a second, websites like Google are kind of amazing when you consider how much data they have to store about these websites and how quickly it's delivered. Most of these websites would get zero traction or visits if it weren't for websites like Google, sure Google exist to show other websites and they make money from placing ads on the pages that link to other websites and Google sometimes sucks with their decision making, but it cannot be understated how important Google was to the development of the internet as we know it today. Lots of people wouldn't even be able to use the internet without sites like Google, lots of old people barely even know what an address bar is, they just Google the websites they want to visit.

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PessimisticPickle t1_j9zvmqs wrote

Underrated comment. Too many people forget browsing through directories of urls

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