Google has been testing blocking news in Google Search on about 4% of Canadian users. Google said, “We’re briefly testing potential product responses to Bill C-18 that impact a very small percentage of Canadian users.”

I reported on this on Search Engine Land last week after Google sent me this statement:

This is similar to what Google did in Australia in 2021, here is what that looked like:

It is hard to know what this test looks like, I did ask Google for examples, but they did not provide them.

I did find these on Twitter, but I was not able to verify if this is the test or not:

This reminds me of this old tweet from Matt Cutts:

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