As I see it, part of the problem is that Google no longer simply provides links to the content, it also provides substantial excerpts.
Based on my own infrequent use of Google (I use DDG by default) I'd guess that frequently people do the search, read the summary, and then never click through to the source.
Perhaps if the summaries were significantly shorter people would click through to the source, and then the source would get more traffic, hence more ad-revenue (or whatever).
So the problem, perhaps, isn't that Google is linking, it's that they are effectively copying, plagiarising[0], the original works.
[0] Added in edit: squiggleblaz[1] correctly notes[2] that it's not plagiarism, since Google is not passing off the words as their own. It's more accurately a form of fraud, or perhaps copyright infringement. Copyright laws allow for short snippets to be quoted as "fair use" (or similar) and so far the quoting by Google has been regarded as legitimate. Perhaps that needs to change.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=squiggleblaz
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25870909
Based on my own infrequent use of Google (I use DDG by default) I'd guess that frequently people do the search, read the summary, and then never click through to the source.
Perhaps if the summaries were significantly shorter people would click through to the source, and then the source would get more traffic, hence more ad-revenue (or whatever).
So the problem, perhaps, isn't that Google is linking, it's that they are effectively copying, plagiarising[0], the original works.
[0] Added in edit: squiggleblaz[1] correctly notes[2] that it's not plagiarism, since Google is not passing off the words as their own. It's more accurately a form of fraud, or perhaps copyright infringement. Copyright laws allow for short snippets to be quoted as "fair use" (or similar) and so far the quoting by Google has been regarded as legitimate. Perhaps that needs to change.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=squiggleblaz
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25870909