But Google doesn’t republish anything? Sure there’s a snippet, but that shows up on any social media website too. The full content is only on the news website.
sorry, I was quick with the language, let us say linking to it then, but the fact remains there is quite a clear difference between what HN does and what Google does, and a law that means Google has to pay does not necessarily mean HN would have to pay.
It's obvious that HN adds a lot of value whereas Google does not.
Google search provides value by linking things that people are looking for - like any other search engine. Similar to the Yellow Pages, or any of the innumerable aggregators for things like travel, booking, shopping, etc.
They do not prevent people from using the website’s own search; it’s just that almost no one does so because a general purpose search engine is more useful to them.
