The Danish Union of Journalists (DJ) website is no longer visible from Google’s search results for 1% of Danish users as part of a “time-limited ...
  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.meEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I can’t even think of a way to be devil’s advocate here: there’s no world in which this is good for anyone, even the benefits for Google are highly questionable in lost trust.

    No matter what people think of legacy media and news, they’re still important and sometimes the only source of information. Seeing them missing from searches really makes you question what else they’re hiding from you.

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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        1 month ago

        Google also did the same for McDonald’s location with a rat infestation in PA last week.

        Disgusting behaviour and a threat to public health imho

    • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Also:

      The firm launched this project after European publishers demanded more information about the traffic brought to their websites by Google search as part of the implementation of the EU Copyright Directive.