Google readies new markup rules for European news publishers
Google is getting ready to change[1] how it presents content in search results pages in France and throughout Europe. This follows on the heels of the new European Copyright Directive[2] that first rolled out in France[3]. The Copyright Directive is intended to generate fees for media publishers whose content appears in search results and on news aggregation sites. However Google has declined to pay[4] those licensing fees and has instead changed the way it will show content...