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Denmark: Union website deindexed by Google in the firm’s latest search experiment
(europeanjournalists.org)
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this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2024
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If I'm understanding correctly, that sounds like what Canada did recently and Google did eventually come to an agreement with the government
Canada, Australia, Germany, Denmark... Same thing happened in Spain in 2014 already:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Newspaper_Publishers%27_Association
Google cut out all Spanish news sources in 2014, until they came back crying in 2022:
https://thefix.media/2023/8/31/google-news-in-spain-the-legacy-of-its-shutdown-and-the-impact-of-its-reopening
And nothing of that has anything to do with blocking the union's website besides Google's sheer incompetence.
First, they have a news section, making them a publisher:
https://journalistforbundet.dk/nyheder
Second, the union is:
https://journalistforbundet.dk/dj-english
That also includes publishers.
Google did what they were asked for. With malicious compliance, but what they were asked for. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes 🤷