Google Restoring Belgian News Sites

Google has settled a portion of its dispute with Belgian news organizations, restoring their websites to Google web search eight months after removing them. The sites are still not represented in Google News, and won’t be until that dispute is settled. Google removed the sites in the first place in responce to the sites’ complaints over use of their stories in Google News and the Google cache. Google now no longer caches archived stories, so the websites can charge readers for those.
So, do you think Google’s ban affected lesoir.be’s traffic? Decide:

(via SEW)

Original post by Nathan Weinberg