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Publisher Whining Prompts Italian Investigation of Google

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the sounds-like-pure-unadulterated-greed-to-me dept.

Complaints about "lack of transparency" from publishers have prompted Italian competition authorities to begin an investigation of Google's search and news services. I'm sure their motives are completely altruistic. "Because Google does not disclose the criteria for ranking news articles or search results, he said, newspapers are unable to hone their content to try to earn more revenue from online advertising. Ad revenue on the Web is directly proportional to the size of the audience, which is heavily influenced by search or Google News rankings."

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  1. Re:Epic Fail by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    When I read "Italian competition authorities" the last thing I thought of was bureaucrats.

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  2. Re:Epic Fail by SterlingSylver · · Score: 5, Funny

    This sure is a nice search engine you got here. Be a shame if something were to happen to it. You know, I gots an idea, how's about you pay my boy Vinnie here 8.4 Billion Euros, and he makes sure nothin' happens to your little website. Ain't that right, Vinnie?

  3. simple by jd2112 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just incorporate the word 'boobies' into the title of all articles.

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