Google ‘throwing its weight around’ by burying links to some commercial news sites, experts say

Google has decided to hide some Australian news sites from its search results, in a move that is being interpreted as a response to the Australian Government attempting to make the tech giant pay for original news content.

The search algorithm tweak affects a small percentage of users and buries links to some commercial news sites, a Google spokesperson said.

“Every year we conduct tens of thousands of experiments in Google Search,” they said.

“We’re currently running a…