Denmark: Union website deindexed by Google in the firm’s latest search experiment

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s not at all evil. /s

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  • jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Publishers are the evil ones here.

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• jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

      …wikipedia.org/…/Spanish_Newspaper_Publishers'_As…

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

      thefix.media/…/google-news-in-spain-the-legacy-of…

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  • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

      journalistforbundet.dk/nyheder

      Second, the union is:

      for people who work in journalism, media and communications

      journalistforbundet.dk/dj-english

      That also includes publishers.

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