Australia faces unthinkable: Life without Google
By Bloomberg
By Angus Whitley, Georgina McKay
Imagine a world without Google, the search engine so pervasive it s the starting point for more than five billion queries a day. That s the reality facing Australia, where the tech giant is threatening to unplug its homepage in a standoff with the government.
Google opposes a planned law that would force the company and Facebook to pay Australian publishers for news content. The Internet juggernaut s ultimatum to local lawmakers change the legislation, or else has left a digital vacuum hanging over a nation that essentially knows just one way to navigate the web. Google runs 95% of Internet searches in Australia.
Slamming Google and Facebook over their approach to the News Media Bargaining Code in Australia, Microsoft President Brad Smith has said that the Unites
Australia faces the unthinkable: Life without Google
Angus Whitley and Georgina McKay, Bloomberg
Feb. 13, 2021
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Imagine a world without Google, the search engine so pervasive it s the starting point for more than five billion queries a day. That s the reality facing Australia, where the tech giant is threatening to unplug its homepage in a standoff with the government.
Google opposes a planned law that would force the company and Facebook to pay Australian publishers for news content. The Internet juggernaut s ultimatum to local lawmakers change the legislation, or else has left a digital vacuum hanging over a nation that essentially knows just one way to navigate the web. Google runs 95% of Inter
The US should copy the new media code instead, Smith said, stressing that he and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reached out to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and explained that
Imagine Life Without Google. Australia Faces The Unthinkable Imagine Life Without Google. Australia Faces The Unthinkable Google opposes a planned law that would force the company and Facebook to pay Australian publishers for news content.
Google threatened to disable its search engine in Australia if forced to pay local publishers for news
Imagine a world without Google, the search engine so pervasive it s the starting point for more than five billion queries a day. That s the reality facing Australia, where the tech giant is threatening to unplug its homepage in a standoff with the government.
Google opposes a planned law that would force the company and Facebook Inc. to pay Australian publishers for news content. The Internet juggernaut s ultimatum to local lawmakers change the legislation, or else has left a digital vacuum hanging over a nation that essentially knows just one way to navigate the web. Google runs 95% of Internet searches in Australia.