Google to Strip Down French News Results Under New Rules
- News search links won’t show snippet or image without consent
- France is the first country to implement new EU copyright law
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Google will show stripped-down French news search results from next month following a long unsuccessful battle to shape copyright rules.
“If you are in France, you may see that some results look different” without a preview or snippet of the article and a small image that can help users to decide whether to click directly to a publishers’ site, Google said in blog posting on Wednesday. Google will only show French users a snippet or an image from a European publisher with explicit consent.