{"id":1007196,"date":"2026-05-07T11:02:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007196"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:24:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:54:41","slug":"google-offers-changes-to-spam-policy-to-avert-eu-antitrust-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/07\/google-offers-changes-to-spam-policy-to-avert-eu-antitrust-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Google offers changes to spam policy to avert EU antitrust fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet&#8217;s Google has offered to change its spam policy criticised by publishers, according to a European Commission document seen by Reuters, in a move that may help it stave off an EU antitrust fine. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. \u200ctech giant \u2060found itself \u2060in EU regulators&#8217; crosshairs after publishers complained about its site reputation abuse policy. It targets the practice of publishing third-party pages on a site in an attempt to abuse search rankings by taking advantage of the host site&#8217;s ranking signals, commonly referred to as parasite SEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet&#8217;s Google has offered to change its spam policy criticised by publishers, according to a European Commission document seen by Reuters, in a move that may help it stave off an EU antitrust fine. The U.S. \u200ctech giant \u2060found itself \u2060in EU regulators&#8217; crosshairs after publishers complained about its site reputation abuse policy. It targets the practice of publishing third-party pages on a site in an attempt to abuse search rankings by taking advantage of the host site&#8217;s ranking signals, commonly referred to as parasite SEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007221,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007196\/revisions\/1007221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}