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Google to remove content from EU news publishers from News, Search, and Discover in small test


EU regulators want to know how news stories affect Google, and to find out, it's removing them.

Google says the test will affect 1% of users in Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain. One percent of users in Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain won't see news content from EU-based publishers as Google collects data, the company announced today. However, the EU's regulators and publishers now want "additional data about the effect of news content in Search on peoples’ use of our products."

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