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

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Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨chobeat@lemmy.ml⁩ to ⁨technology@beehaw.org⁩

https://europeanjournalists.org/blog/2024/12/16/union-website-deindexed-by-google-in-the-firms-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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