Re: @AC
"It worked with google news and a couple of EU countries who tried to make google pay the news providers. Situation going back to before when the news sites rapidly lost viewings."
That was a deliberate policy of de-listing by Google et al to make a point and try to stop a precedent being set. It was blackmail by Google et al. "Nice news site you have there. It'd be a shame if no one could find it"
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