Google is paying more for news in a break with its past
Google is paying more for news in a break with its past Image: Brett Jordan/Unsplash 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. 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 has urged the US to pass a comparable law. “If Australia is successful, it could be a precedent for the rest of the world,” said Be...