Google admits experimentally blocking some Australian news sites from searches as row over paying outlets for content gains steam

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Internet users can’t find the latest Aussie news on searches as outlets say Google is flexing its muscles against the country’s senate’s proposed code that would make it pay media for news.

For days now, some internet users have been wondering why Google searches have omitted the latest updates from Sydney Morning Herald, the Daily Telegraph and other Australian news sites. Now the tech giant has admitted that it is carrying out an “experiment,” tweaking its closely guarded algorithm – and only old links are being displayed.

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