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'Existential crisis': how Google's shift to AI has upended the online news model

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10 points 01-_- | 4 comments | 07 Sep 25 15:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Bratmon ◴[07 Sep 25 16:47 UTC] No.45159804[source]▶
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?
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mort96 ◴[07 Sep 25 17:08 UTC] No.45160003[source]▶
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
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skybrian ◴[07 Sep 25 17:23 UTC] No.45160188[source]▶
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.
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mort96 ◴[07 Sep 25 20:16 UTC] No.45161745[source]▶
Not sure why you bring up Google News when Google Search still displays snippets in search results
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1. skybrian ◴[07 Sep 25 21:06 UTC] No.45162152[source]▶
It's what I use. Do people use Google Search to read the news?
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2. mort96 ◴[08 Sep 25 07:26 UTC] No.45165492[source]▶
People use Google Search to search for things, sometimes Google provides articles from newspapers as search results. Surely you too have seen that before?
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3. skybrian ◴[08 Sep 25 16:13 UTC] No.45170090[source]▶
Yes, but that’s research. When you’re reading the news, it’s to learn about news stories that you don’t already know something about.

I suppose you could also search on something generic like “ai news?” When I tried that, all the news story results at the top of the page had no snippets. It’s not until way down the page that there are regular search results with snippets.

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4. mort96 ◴[08 Sep 25 22:32 UTC] No.45174956{3}[source]▶
What is your point? I'm stating that the complaints from news companies was about how Google is extracting parts of the article to put under the link, that they didn't complain about the link in and of itself. How does this have anything at all to do with how you read news?