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This is good. More clicks to the news sites and google is more like Reddit now. But it is sad that there had to be a law for that. Gooogle should give the option to remove anything but the title from the page result (is this possible?).


Google already did give the option of publishers controlling the way their content shows in places like Google news, including multiple controls over if the snippets are shown, how much text can be shown, whether the google cached link should be shown, and more.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/79812?hl=en


Less clicks. Much less. It's exactly what happened in Germany. They "won" and then saw their Google click-through rate plummet, which was a significant % of their click-throughs.


Less clicks through search for sure. This however may render google news useless, and increase direct traffic instead


Would a news stand being forced to cover all the newspapers in black bags drive more sales to online orders?


That s not what s happening. Paper Newspapers have a frontpage for a reason: only titles, not the content. If you want more, buy it




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