am I understanding it correctly that if I’m in Canada and search for, say ArsTechnica, or other news source, Google will not show those results to me? Like they indexed the site and will omit it from a search?
Or are they pulling news in their “cards” or whatever they call them when they show previews and users never enter the site. Havent used Google Search in so long don’t even know what shenanigans they are up to.
As I understand it, they are pulling all links to Canadian news sources from search and from their cards, Google News, etc. So if you search for Canadian news you will not find it, unless international news organizations report it, and neither will you find world news reported by Canadian news channels and newspapers.
It might still be possible to use Google to search for Canadian news if you use a VPN and pretend to be in another country, especially if you do it from a browser that’s not logged in to your account.
I’m having a hard time believing that is the case for “search.” Cards and “google news” is another story.
As much as I dislike Google’s practices, they are doing a service by indexing where websites are and allowing them to be found based on keywords.
I feel if I go to “google.com” and search for <some Canadian news site> Google should show me links to <some Canadian news site> so that I can visit the site directly. Any law that retards that is shooting Canadian news outlets in the foot.
Now if Google somehow finds what you’re looking for and does not take me directly to the website and instead parses the site, presents the content, and shows its own ads, as opposed to ads hosted on <some Canadian news site>, then yeah - google can go play in traffic.
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am I understanding it correctly that if I’m in Canada and search for, say ArsTechnica, or other news source, Google will not show those results to me? Like they indexed the site and will omit it from a search?
Or are they pulling news in their “cards” or whatever they call them when they show previews and users never enter the site. Havent used Google Search in so long don’t even know what shenanigans they are up to.
As I understand it, they are pulling all links to Canadian news sources from search and from their cards, Google News, etc. So if you search for Canadian news you will not find it, unless international news organizations report it, and neither will you find world news reported by Canadian news channels and newspapers.
It might still be possible to use Google to search for Canadian news if you use a VPN and pretend to be in another country, especially if you do it from a browser that’s not logged in to your account.
I’m having a hard time believing that is the case for “search.” Cards and “google news” is another story.
As much as I dislike Google’s practices, they are doing a service by indexing where websites are and allowing them to be found based on keywords.
I feel if I go to “google.com” and search for <some Canadian news site> Google should show me links to <some Canadian news site> so that I can visit the site directly. Any law that retards that is shooting Canadian news outlets in the foot.
Now if Google somehow finds what you’re looking for and does not take me directly to the website and instead parses the site, presents the content, and shows its own ads, as opposed to ads hosted on <some Canadian news site>, then yeah - google can go play in traffic.