Googleresponded to the earliercomplaintssaying it publishes full texts only if rightsholdersapproveandagree tothe settlement, whileotherbookswouldonly be available in snippets.
Googleresponded by threatening to remove all French news sites from its index, which would presumably eliminate the 4 billion clicks it sends to those sites every year.
Matt Cutts, a senior software engineer for Google, responded to Privacy International in his blog, pointing out what seemed to be an unfair focus on Google.