August 22  SEONews

Google’s backroom deal with California is bad for everyone — including Google – SFGATE

Let’s imagine a perfect version of journalism in 2024.

Say there’s a huge fire burning in California. Residents type “wildfire news near me” into a search engine. In return, they get a range of fresh reporting: interviews with firefighters, guidance on possible evacuations, photos, videos, maps. They get all the information they need, written by fact-checked journalists, plus ways to dig into anything else they might want to learn more about. There is not an AI-generated summary in sight. Everything is current, and true.

This isn’t our current reality for two reasons: There just aren’t enough journalists anymore, and Google Search is deeply flawed. On Wednesday, state lawmakers and the Bay Area tech giant blew a chance to help fix both of those problems. A bill was in the works that would’ve made the biggest tech platforms share ad revenue from news links with the publishers who produce them. It would have paid for scores more reporters across the state, giving Google better, more…

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