Google Is Paying for More Information in a Break With Its Past
Google Is Paying for More Information in a Break With Its Past Bloomberg 3/1/2021 Nico Grant (Bloomberg) -- Google is under growing pressure to pay for information that, for two decades, the search provider snipped from the web -- and made a mint from -- without paying a penny. Popular Searches Australian and French efforts to force Google to compensate news publishers are only the latest examples of a trend spanning the globe. Canada is considering a similar requirement and rival Microsoft Corp. has urged the U.S. to pass a comparable law. “If Australia is successful, it ...