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Google claims news is worthless to its ad business after test involving 1% of search results in eight EU markets


Google has reported the results of an experiment it ran which removed news from search results for 1% of users for 2.5 months in eight* markets in Europe

But the tech giant is walking a tricky line, as it has already faced major antitrust fines in France in recent years in relation to news content. Indeed, the company had initially included users in France in the news ablation tests but abandoned this portion of the experiment after a French court warned it would be fined for breaking a prior agreement with the antitrust authority. She joined TC after a stint reviewing smartphones for CNET UK and, prior to that, more than five years covering business technology for silicon.com (now folded into TechRepublic), where she focused on mobile and wireless, telecoms & networking, and IT skills issues.

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