Google trials burying commercial news as code stoush continues

Google has continued to escalate its campaign against the News Media Bargaining Code, experimenting with pushing down search results linking to commercial news outlets, and claiming submissions to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) prove the draft code is unworkable.

According to an article in The Australian Financial Review today, the algorithm experiment means some users searching for content from Nine and News Corp mastheads are being met with old stories or links to other outlets.

Yesterday, Google updated its home page with a message about the submissions