Comment by PennRobotics

You missed the McDonald's analogy. A burger in every shop in the U.S. will taste the same as any other. It follows the rules of the franchise, just as every site I linked is a cookie cutter website for local news. Each "local" site has nearly the same functionality, look, backend... because they are from the same supplier. It's news franchises serving your local paper and TV station, and it has been for a while.

Certainly, this media conglomerate does not need to care about European visitors, but to claim they do on the "Access Denied" page is quite hypocritical.

I hadn't even mentioned the detail, "while we work to ensure..." This would imply they've been doing anything at all for the past three years.

Also, I'm 15 miles away from a Google office, so I guess I've been using a European search engine all along!