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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 hangin...

Australia faces the unthinkable: Life without Google Angus Whitley and Georgina McKay, Bloomberg Feb. 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3People visit Bondi Beach in Sydney on Oct. 13, 2020.Bloomberg photo by Brent Lewin.Show MoreShow Less 2of3The Google logo in an arranged photograph on Jan. 22, 2021. Bloomberg photo by David Gray.David Gray/BloombergShow MoreShow Less 3of3 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 unp...

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 gove...

Google opposes a planned law that would force it and Facebook to pay Australian publishers for news content.

Potential fallout from a spat goes far beyond Australia for Google, whose dominance of global advertising has made it a target for watchdogs worldwide.