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Why We Are Here => Traffic => Topic started by: Mackin USA on August 26, 2016, 03:05:09 PM

Title: News publishers could charge search engines for story extracts
Post by: Mackin USA on August 26, 2016, 03:05:09 PM
The move will heap further pressure on the already strained relationship between Silicon Valley and Brussels, which are embroiled in increasingly fractious arguments over issues covering competition, tax and privacy.

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/news-publishers-could-charge-search-engines-for-story-extracts-1.2768682
Title: Re: News publishers could charge search engines for story extracts
Post by: rcjordan on August 26, 2016, 03:15:46 PM
*could*

IIRC, didn't Big G pull the plug on French newspapers about 18 months ago and the publishers soon begged for the traffic?