Thread: Google News to Pulls out of Spain
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Old 12-13-2014, 12:49 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by leebase View Post
Didn't we see this play out already. European country newsies complain about google. Google stops carrying their content in it's indexes. Traffic to the news sites plummets. Newsies go BACK to Google demanding to be added once again.
The difference here is that if the synopsis of the Spanish law is correct, Google would need to start paying the Spanish newspapers for the snippets used in their Google News links, which Google has indicated they will not do. If the newspapers get the law repealed, I'm sure Google will be back.
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