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Posted: Thursday, December 11, 2014
After 9/11, one of our engineers, Krishna Bharat, realized that results for
the query “World Trade Center” returned nothing about the terrorist
attacks. And it was also hard to compare the news from different sources or
countries because every web site was a silo. That’s how Google News was
born and today the service is available in more than 70 international
editions, covering 35 languages.
It’s a service that hundreds of millions of users love and trust, including
many here in Spain. It’s free to use and includes everything from the
world’s biggest newspapers to small, local publications and bloggers.
Publishers can choose whether or not they want their articles to appear in
Google News -- and the vast majority choose to be included for very good
reason. Google News creates real value for these publications by driving
people to their websites, which in turn helps generate advertising revenues.
But sadly, as a result of a new Spanish law, we’ll shortly have to close
Google News in Spain. Let me explain why. This new legislation requires
every Spanish publication to charge services like Google News for showing
even the smallest snippet from their publications, whether they want to or
not. As Google News itself makes no money (we do not show any advertising on
the site) this new approach is simply not sustainable. So it’s with real
sadness that on 16 December (before the new law comes into effect in January
) we’ll remove Spanish publishers from Google News, and close Google News
in Spain.
For centuries publishers were limited in how widely they could distribute
the printed page. The Internet changed all that -- creating tremendous
opportunities but also real challenges for publishers as competition both
for readers’ attention and for advertising Euros increased. We’re
committed to helping the news industry meet that challenge and look forward
to continuing to work with our thousands of partners globally, as well as in
Spain, to help them increase their online readership and revenues.
Posted by Richard Gingras, Head of Google News |
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