Why should we act to funnel Google's profits to nobody except large media outlets over a certain revenue threshold, the largest group of which are owned by Rupert Murdoch?
Why can't we allow all Australian businesses and individuals to receive payments from Google's money hose if they want to?
Why can't we standardise some API for doing so? robots.txt or .well-known/summary-fees.json or something of that sort would work fine.
Why can't Google hide results that cost too much to show? Surely choosing your suppliers is a foundational principle of any market.
I don't have an ideological problem with charging them for showing a link summary or regulating what price negotiation should look like, I have an strategic problem with this oddly specific and coercive way of doing so.
