Google has several French-language newspapers from Belgium lwa removed from its search results and from Google News. The newspapers are angry, because the only intent was to no longer to be included in Google News.
One of the affected newspapers, La Capitale, reports that it finds that Google’s French-speaking newspapers boycott. The Belgian Court of Appeal ruled in may of this year that the showing of the intro of articles infringing on copyright. The newspapers united in Copiepresse, figured out that they would disappear from Googles aggregatiedienst Google News, but the newspapers, including Le Soir and La Libre, are now completely impossible to find.
Google says to news agency AP that the with the removal of the newspapers from the search engine meets the judgment of the Court of Appeal. The verdict seems to be there indeed to disclaim: “Condemns Google to remove the sites Google.be and Google.com more precisely the links in <cache>, which are visible on Google Web and the service, Google News, (…) from the Belgian French-speaking and German-speaking dagbladuitgevers represented by Copiepresse.” The Court of Appeal is also of the opinion that Google does not cache pages to save, because of the copyright violation.
For many websites, it does not mean more visible in Google a substantial reduction of the number of visitors and visits: with most web sites is from 30 to 90 percent of visitors via Google. Probably going to the newspapers with the search giant to sit down to come up with a solution.