Why would you put content on the internet, and NOT want the dominent search engine to index it? Google is driving visitors to these sites, at no cost to these publishers.
Why would you put content on the internet, and NOT want the dominent search engine to index it? Google is driving visitors to these sites, at no cost to these publishers.
The issue here is with the fact that (a) there is a search engine that monopolises the search market in the first place and (b) that that monopolist has no business abusing it's monopoly position and (c) Google has no business threatening national governments. Let Google go home to California and sulk like a three year old toddler. Australians will just start using Google's competitors, other countries who have similar issues with the Google monopoly will just learn from this and Google's competition in the
I fail to see why the Australian government needs to discuss this with Google at all. Lawmaking is the government's work and they don't need to ask Google at all. The important thing for them to do is getting it to pass. Once it's passed, companies doing business in their country must abide by those laws or pack up and leave.
Except when Google shows enough info that the person searching doesn't need to click on the link. That's what this has been about from the start.
Surely Slashdot users can understand how users might not read the article, or even the full summary at times.
Why would you put content on the internet, and NOT want the dominent search engine to index it? Google is driving visitors to these sites, at no cost to these publishers.
The issue here is with the fact that (a) there is a search engine that monopolises the search market in the first place and (b) that that monopolist has no business abusing it's monopoly position and (c) Google has no business threatening national governments. Let Google go home to California and sulk like a three year old toddler. Australians will just start using Google's competitors, other countries who have similar issues with the Google monopoly will just learn from this and Google's competition in the