People use Google Search to search for things, sometimes Google provides articles from newspapers as search results. Surely you too have seen that before?
Yes, but that’s research. When you’re reading the news, it’s to learn about news stories that you don’t already know something about.
I suppose you could also search on something generic like “ai news?” When I tried that, all the news story results at the top of the page had no snippets. It’s not until way down the page that there are regular search results with snippets.
What is your point? I'm stating that the complaints from news companies was about how Google is extracting parts of the article to put under the link, that they didn't complain about the link in and of itself. How does this have anything at all to do with how you read news?