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Step 1: Make Google pay for including you in search results.

Step 2: Force Google to include you by demanding something like search engine neutrality.



Step 3: Google requires payment from German publishers to be included in the search index, exactly offsetting fees incurred in Step 1. It would be quite reasonable, I think.


Step 4. Only commercial sites from Germany are in Google, cause it's too much paperwork to have all these fees canceled if you're not doing this full time.

Both Google and newspapers in Germany are glad from such resolution, only some naive young people complain about something. They're surely pirates.




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