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Slippedhal0 t1_j9x15sa wrote

I'm pretty sure Australia already makes google pay in the exact same way.

EDIT: After double checking the wording it seems like its even just the linked search results - which doesn't make sense to me - search engines increase traffic to websites, if anything news sites should be paying google for its huge audience.

The most i would agree to is that search engines should pay for content if they summarize the web pages content in such away that the user no longer needs to follow the link to the original source, reducing site traffic

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Talqazar t1_j9xvzj2 wrote

Australia managed to shake them down, but frankly I was surprised they pulled it off.

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linuxwes t1_j9zbzwg wrote

Google really screwed up in Oz, but now the precedent has been set and ultimately all the governments (except the US of course) will want a slice of the pie.

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