Google’s News Showcase

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Sydney: Google is reviving plans to launch its own news website in Australia within weeks, according to a local media outlet contracted to provide articles for the venture, as the search giant fights world-first proposed laws on content payments.

The launch of the News Showcase product as early as next month is Google's latest tactic in a high-profile campaign against the Australian government's planned legislation to make the company pay local news providers for content that appears in its search engine.

"Right now, no website or search engine pays to connect people to other sites through links," Silva said in the undated post. "This law would change that, making Google pay to provide links for the first time in our history."

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/goo...orm-launch-amid-content-payment-fight-2358705
 

Google pulled its service from mainland China in 2010 after a sophisticated cyber attack reportedly backed by Beijing. Expert says after Google's departure, China's tech industry has built a comprehensive ecosystem. Australians would likely turn to VPNs to access Google if the search service was shut down……

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01...-to-learn-from-china-legislation-law/13102112
 

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s prime minister said on Monday that Microsoft is confident it can fill the void if Google carries out its threat to remove its search engine from Australia.

A Google executive told a Senate hearing last month that it would likely make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government goes ahead with a draft law that would make tech giants pay for news content.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he has spoken to Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella about its search engine, Bing, filling the space. “I can tell you, Microsoft’s pretty confident” that Australians would not be worse off, Morrison told the National Press Club of Australia.

https://apnews.com/article/business...orning Wire&utm_term=Morning Wire Subscribers
 
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it fully supported proposed new laws in Australia that would force internet giants Google and Facebook Inc to pay domestic media outlets for their content.

“While Microsoft is not subject to the legislation currently pending, we’d be willing to live by these rules if the government designates us,” the software firm said in a statement......

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-laws-targeting-google-facebook-idUSKBN2A307W
 
Microsoft boss ready to fill Google void

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Microsoft’s Brad Smith said the tech company would be happy to work with the news media bargaining code.

Microsoft president Brad Smith says the software company is willing to sacrifice profits to support public interest journalism and is ready to step up and become Australia’s leading search provider, putting the pressure on Google to capitulate to the government.

Speaking from Redmond in Seattle he said the legislation, which presses Google and Facebook to strike deals with publishers that would ensure news creators were paid fairly by the digital platforms for journalism, was a necessary step in protecting democracy………………… https://www.afr.com/technology/will...crosoft-commits-to-media-code-20210203-p56z1g
 
Mel Silva, Managing Director for Google Australia, explains why there is a workable news code which doesn’t break Google Search.

 
I avoid Google like the plague and it annoy me no end that it knows where I am when I have my Android phone on my person.
 

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