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Google Testing Removing EU-based News Publishers From Search (www.seroundtable.com)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Google has begun testing removing EU-based news publishers in Google News, Google Search, and Google Discover for 1% of users in Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain (not France). Google is doing this to provide data on the impact this will make for these publishers if this would be rolled out to 100% of users.

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[–] pagenotfound@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

I’m testing removing Google from my life for some time now.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 44 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Google is doing this to provide data on the impact this will make for these publishers

Read: trying to threaten them.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That was my first thought as well, but per the article it sounds like EU regulators requested that data from Google.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

They usually request data that can be obtained from their business data, bookkeeping etc. Doing such a survey work shouldn't be neccessary for answering the EU's questions.

IMHO it smells.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago

shrugs