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Denmark: Union website deindexed by Google in the firm’s latest search experiment (europeanjournalists.org)

submitted 5 days ago by chobeat@lemmy.ml to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The firm launched this project after European publishers demanded more information about the traffic brought to their websites by Google search as part of the implementation of the EU Copyright Directive.

For the full context:

Publishers want to force Google to pay them for "copying" their news into the search engine.
Google claims publishers would die of starvation without Google.
In countries where such forced royalties were implemented, Google simply delisted everyone... until publishers came back crying about lost visits.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If I'm understanding correctly, that sounds like what Canada did recently and Google did eventually come to an agreement with the government

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 3 days ago

Canada, Australia, Germany, Denmark... Same thing happened in Spain in 2014 already:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Newspaper_Publishers%27_Association

Google cut out all Spanish news sources in 2014, until they came back crying in 2022:

https://thefix.media/2023/8/31/google-news-in-spain-the-legacy-of-its-shutdown-and-the-impact-of-its-reopening

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And nothing of that has anything to do with blocking the union's website besides Google's sheer incompetence.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

First, they have a news section, making them a publisher:

https://journalistforbundet.dk/nyheder

Second, the union is:

for people who work in journalism, media and communications

https://journalistforbundet.dk/dj-english

That also includes publishers.

Google did what they were asked for. With malicious compliance, but what they were asked for. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes 🤷