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Google fined $592 million in dispute with French publishers

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PARIS -- France’s competition regulator said Tuesday it fined Google 500 million euros ($592 million) for failing to negotiate in good faith with French publishers in a dispute over payments for their news.

The agency threatened fines of another 900,000 euros (around $1 million) per day if Google doesn’t come up with proposals within two months on how it will compensate publishers news agencies.

Google France said in a statement it was “very disappointed” by the decision, and that the fine “doesn't reflect the efforts put in place or the reality of the use of news content on our platform.” It said it is negotiating in good faith toward a solution, and that it's on the verge of reaching an agreement with some publishers.

The dispute is part of a larger effort by authorities in the European Union and around the world to force Google and other tech companies to compensate publishers for content.


https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa...92-million-dispute-french-publishers-78812979
 
Is this why there are so many search engine and advertising competitors lately?
 
Love it thanks for sharing it
 
Google helps to bring people to news sites. It's up the news site to actually make people become regular visitors directly by not pissing them off with a ridiculous amount of ads that slow even good computers down.

When it comes to the articles on your news website, don't ancestor shame or shame people for their ethnicity also don't misuse statistics to make lies about what is going on. A thing that should be done is have multi part articles with some spread out over a week, over a month, over a year and some are multi year in order for people to keep coming back on a regular basis.
 
Google is bringing visitors to those news sites. Without google there is no visits, readers, advertising profits.
They are not the only search engine, of course, but searches and visits that their "competition" provide is rounding error compared to google.

If I am google, I would block service for the whole country and wait until they beg for some traffic, any traffic.
 
Google is bringing visitors to those news sites. Without google there is no visits, readers, advertising profits.
They are not the only search engine, of course, but searches and visits that their "competition" provide is rounding error compared to google.

If I am google, I would block service for the whole country and wait until they beg for some traffic, any traffic.

Google should deindex the news sites... until they contact google's support to re index them :D
 
Unlikely this is going to have much financial impact on Google as there is no terms stating how soon should the fine be paid. It can be paid by installments or even spread across 100 years. Who knows? No detail of payment plan for the fine is revealed. Seems like a publicity stunt by the relevant govt authorities that they have 'won' against Google.
 
"Google is evil" aside, it is annoying to see how certain states think if you earn more than the rest, then you have to play by stricter rules. After all, you managed to get there on your own, it is your merit, and you are entitled for the benefits–you earned it. What EU strives for here is discrimination of big tech, to put it simply. If those news authors do not like how Google handles their content, then they should opt out of all business with Google, as simple as that.
 
Everyone knows that Google has money, so everyone wants to find it as often as possible. This is a completely normal practice in the world. When someone does not have enough money, then he tries some provocations in order to rip off money from the big corporation.
I do not want to praise Google, as they are not a good prince either, but everything works exactly as I said above.
 
Everyone knows that Google has money, so everyone wants to find it as often as possible. This is a completely normal practice in the world. When someone does not have enough money, then he tries some provocations in order to rip off money from the big corporation.
I do not want to praise Google, as they are not a good prince either, but everything works exactly as I said above.
Yes it does. But it is nowhere near fair and free market that leading world powers proclaim. Complete hypocrisy.
 
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