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Google Pays News Platforms in Australia to Prove No Law Is Needed to Make It Pay News Platforms
Australians suffering through anxiety caused by the looming threat of having to switch to Bing for their search results received a bit of welcome news on Friday. As the country’s lawmakers move forward on plans to force Google to pay news providers, the tech giant has launched a small paid news platform in Australia.
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Google’s Licensing Program to Pay Publishers Won’t Solve Its News Problem
Faced with the increasingly vocal criticism that it’s one of the primary reasons why newsrooms are struggling, Google announced today a new licensing program that will pay certain publishers for content ahead of launching a “new news experience” later this year.
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How Google News Compares To Twitter, Facebook And RSS For Your News
There’s a new news aggregator in town (well, an old one, revamped). The updated, refreshed and smarter version of Google News is out now on Android, iOS, and the web, so how does this reimagining of the news stack up against the other ways we usually get our headlines — Facebook, Twitter and RSS? We’ve…
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Spain’s New ‘Google Tax’ Could Be Bad For Everyone
The Spanish government has just approved a law that will force news aggregation services, such as Google News, to pay news sites for each link they include with their content. You read that right: On top of sending sites heaps of traffic, Google (other aggregators like Yahoo News, and maybe even Facebook or Twitter) will…