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The law prevents Google from removing their results. Ie the news companies are freeloading from Google.

Does it prevent it from stop indexing these sites? Imagine it does display "latest news" snippets, but from 3 months ago...

Google is a de-facto monopoly for search.

Exercise your consumer choice.

Until enough people do that, Google still has 90%+ of the general search traffic. De facto monopoly.

Being the superior product while numerous alternatives exist that perform similarly is not a monopoly.