{"id":42666,"date":"2025-09-04T06:09:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/media-briefing-dojs-google-search-trial-remedies-fall-flat-for-publishers\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T06:09:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:09:02","slug":"media-briefing-dojs-google-search-trial-remedies-fall-flat-for-publishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/media-briefing-dojs-google-search-trial-remedies-fall-flat-for-publishers\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Briefing: DOJ\u2019s Google search trial remedies fall flat for publishers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Media Briefing looks at what the DOJ\u2019s anti-climatic ruling on the Google Search\u00a0antitrust trial means for publishers. Many were disappointed, though some media execs said the fight for more publisher control wasn\u2019t over.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ\u2019s ruling means Google\u2019s search engine remains deeply intertwined with AI experiments, which are hurting publishers\u2019 referral traffic. Some execs consider this a \u201cbig win\u201d for the tech company.<\/p>\n<p>Onion CEO talks buying Infowars, Spin magazine deal falls through, and more<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018A big win for Google\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>After months of buildup, the Department of Justice\u2019s behavioral remedies for Google, <a href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/marketing\/google-wont-have-to-sell-chrome-after-ruling-in-search-antitrust-trial\/\">revealed on Sept. 2<\/a>, have landed with a dull thud for many in adland.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a member-exclusive article from Digiday. <a href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/media\/media-briefing-dojs-google-search-trial-remedies-fall-flat-for-publishers\/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=general-rss\">Continue reading it on digiday.com<\/a> and subscribe to continue reading content like this.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Media Briefing looks at what the DOJ\u2019s anti-climatic ruling on the Google Search\u00a0antitrust trial means for publishers. Many were disappointed, though some media execs said the fight for more publisher control wasn\u2019t over. The DOJ\u2019s ruling means Google\u2019s search engine remains deeply intertwined with AI experiments, which are hurting publishers\u2019 referral traffic. Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}