Google is testing the ‘impact’ of removing EU news from search results
Google is testing the ‘impact’ of removing EU news from search results
Some users won’t see EU news articles in Search.
Big tech needs to be stopped yesterday. This literally has china great firewall energy and I hate it.
Big tech needs to be stopped yesterday. This literally has china great firewall energy and I hate it.
This is one of the rare occasions I'm siding with Google. The news outlets are claiming that they should be paid money for those result snippets. It's not because I'm caring for Google so much but because that stance hurts small search engines.
Europe asked Google to do this so they can monitor what kind of influence Google has.
I mean, they've done this when places charge them money to index the news articles there.
It hardly seems reasonable to both mandate that they index a given piece of news media and that they pay a fee to do so.
My brother in Lemmy, this is what stopping Big Tech looks like.
Europe made laws that say that Google and others need to pay if they want to link to EU publishers. Well, maybe the price they are asking is not worth it.
You're right about the firewall energy, but that's simply how these laws work. The point of copyright, as well as age verification and other such laws, is to control who may access certain information.
A US news echo chamber at the whims of whatever they think will appease trump is going to be horrifying...
Which ironically makes me think banning Google outright in the EU over this would be the right call to make.
If they could at the same time make one without usa news that would be great
Users are testing the impact of not using Google.
Spoiler: non-LLM enshittified search engines return reliable results and usually are not censored.
I've been testing this for years now and the transition has been seamless
Somebody help get my ideas straight on this one, please.
To my knowledge, Bing and Google search engine are the default options available out there, to the point other search services relay service from those, give or take a few tweaks (DuckDuckGo, Startpage, etc).
Now lets remove those from the picture and what is left?
I read a post yesterday announcing Ecosia amd Qwant were joining efforts to build a fully european search engine (hopefully, yes, but I'm not holding my breath on it). Maybe that is an option. But what else?
I just clicked on that link and the first headline is about Barbados, a country very clearly not in Europe. Lol
On 30 November 2021, Barbados transitioned to a republic within the Commonwealth, replacing its monarchy with a ceremonial president.
if you take a quick look at other news from Barbados, you would understand why ☞ https://www.theguardian.com/world/barbados
it was "spectacular" with Rihanna attending the ceremony ☞ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWbC1H7RJHI
not that i'm a fan. I just remember reading about it, and it's only been 3 years
Boo fuckin’ hoo… Good riddance.
Absurd take
