Didn't the news industry just spend half a decade arguing that linking to their news is such a burden on them that Google should pay them to do it?
mort96 · 21h ago
Wasn't that mostly about how Google extracts a portion of the article to display inline below the search result? I don't think the issue was with the links themselves
gdulli · 21h ago
Yeah I don't know if that was a bad faith or just confused take you responded to but clearly the press was ultimately arguing for their own survival, which, selfish or not, aligns with our interests too. Destroying the imperfect institution of the press is a perennially easy message for demagogues to sell but replacing it with the tech industry is much worse.
The press didn't foresee that this path would specifically lead to something as stupid as automated generation of the news but they knew it was going somewhere stupid.
skybrian · 20h ago
Google News stopped displaying snippets below headlines many years ago. Now they clutter the page with useless images and removed the preference to turn them off.
mort96 · 18h ago
Not sure why you bring up Google News when Google Search still displays snippets in search results
skybrian · 17h ago
It's what I use. Do people use Google Search to read the news?
mort96 · 6h ago
People use Google Search to search for things, sometimes Google provides articles from newspapers as search results. Surely you too have seen that before?
The press didn't foresee that this path would specifically lead to something as stupid as automated generation of the news but they knew it was going somewhere stupid.