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Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia - green314 - 01-23-2021

Quote:Google has threatened to remove its search engine from Australia over the nation's attempt to make the tech giant share royalties with news publishers.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55760673

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RE: Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia - Oni - 01-23-2021

Pretty outrageous. They are taking Google for granted, given few people would even read their news without it.

RE: Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia - Jiggly - 01-23-2021

I'm struggling to understand why google needs to pay for content they connect users to? For free, they are providing a platform for news entities to receive more traffic...?

RE: Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia - mothered - 01-24-2021

It will have minimal Impact, If any.

I assume Google hasn't heard of a VPN.

RE: Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia - FaithButlers - 01-28-2021

lol, also thought about the vpn services, the same thing having happened in the US with tiktok a couple of months ago

RE: Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia - mothered - 01-29-2021

(01-23-2021, 08:00 PM)Jiggly Wrote: I'm struggling to understand why google needs to pay for content they connect users to?

It's absolutely ridiculous.

Moreover, why are they solely targeting Google and not other leading search engines to the likes of Bing, AOL and Yahoo? They all provide a gateway to the said content.

RE: Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia - Jiggly - 01-29-2021

(01-29-2021, 04:29 AM)mothered Wrote:
(01-23-2021, 08:00 PM)Jiggly Wrote: I'm struggling to understand why google needs to pay for content they connect users to?
It's absolutely ridiculous.

Moreover, why are they solely targeting Google and not other leading search engines to the likes of Bing, AOL and Yahoo? They all provide a gateway to the said content.

Incredibly good point. This all seems a bit peculiar.

RE: Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia - mothered - 01-30-2021

(01-29-2021, 04:18 PM)Jiggly Wrote: This all seems a bit peculiar.

It's very peculiar Indeed.

Here's a recent article I've just stumbled across, which Is even more bizarre.

RE: Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia - Jiggly - 02-01-2021

(01-30-2021, 02:34 AM)mothered Wrote:
(01-29-2021, 04:18 PM)Jiggly Wrote: This all seems a bit peculiar.
It's very peculiar Indeed.

Here's a recent article I've just stumbled across, which Is even more bizarre.

This does just get more interesting. There was a lot of "legal speak" in that article but I managed to get the gist. I wasn't at all aware about the French part. Especially this:
"The agreement with France allows Google to negotiate individual licenses whereby payment will be based on specific and measurable metrics. This includes Google paying on behalf of the reader for any content published behind paywalls, allowing users access to content they wouldn’t be able to see unless they made a payment."