Google vs. Australia still remains a tangled web Industry leaders worldwide have strongly condemned Google’s plan to exit from Australia over the proposed news media bargaining code. Ouch. PUBLISHED BY TAGS: world’s most popular search engine Microsoft’s Bing, Yahoo and the privacy-focused Duck Duck Go, and the market is wide open for each to comfortably occupy the nearly 90-95% market share that is currently under Google’s dominant fist. The ongoing Google vs. Australia slugfest over the ‘ World First’ media code is followed by reaction and ripples from the search engine’s rivals to tech industry leaders, and regulators to other governments chiming over the protracted negotiations.