Debunking The Italian Newspapers’ Antitrust Allegations Against Google

As a reminder, a group of Belgian papers back in 2006 sued Google to be excluded from all of its search properties (rather than just opting out using robots.txt). In the end, they won $77 million in damages (though I think this is still on appeal). But the papers also ultimately came crawling back to Google for inclusion.

The saga of newspapers versus Google is far from over. But in...