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Google Threatens to Remove Search Engine in Australia Over Proposed Law Google on Friday said it may make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government carries out a plan for search engines to pay for news content. “If this version of the code were to become law, it would give us no real choice but to stop making Google search available in Australia,” Mel Silva, Google’s managing director for the region, told Australian senators. “And that would be a bad outcome not only for us, but also for the Australian people, media diversity, and the small businesses who use our pr...

However Australian Prime Minister has vowed not to kowtow to the companies, telling journalists "we don't respond to threats". The code, designed to "level the playing field" by ensuring Australia's struggling journalism industry, has not been well-received by tech companies, who have pushed back hard against it. "If the code becomes law, Google would have no real choice but to stop providing search in Australia," Silva told an Australian Senate hearing on Friday. "That's a worst-case scenario and the last thing we want to have happen, especially when there is a way forward to a workable code...