• Re: all the news that, General Thoughts ...

    From John Levine@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed May 7 00:05:42 2025
    According to rbowman <bowman@montana.com>:
    Being fond of conspiracy theories I wouldn't be surprised if money changes >hands for google's news aggregator to favor sites that are selling >subscriptions.

    I doubt it. Canada and Australia passed laws, supported by heavy lobbying from the
    newspapers, that tried to make Google pay for links to newspapers. They did a fudge
    in Australia for a while but eventually said no, we'll just turn off Google News in
    those countries since we were making no money from it anyway.



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