Spain Wants Google News Back, After Removal
It looks like the Spanish Newspaper Publishers’ Association
(AEDE) is unhappy with Google’s dismissal of the new revenue split for
Google News. Under a new Spanish law, all headlines that appeared on
Google News would be paid for by Google, prior to the listing on Google
News. In response to the new law, Google pulled its news service out of
the country. In under a week, the AEDE is claiming Google is remaining
neutral and does not want to work with the association.
Irene Lanzaco, a spokeswoman for AEDE, spoke to The Spain
Report via telephone about the situation “we’re not asking Google to
take a step backwards, we’ve always been open to negotiations with
Google … Google has not taken a neutral stance.”
“Of course they are free to close their business, but one
thing is the closure of Google News and quite another the positioning in
the general index”
It is unclear what these negotiations would include,
considering the AEDE implemented the new law without any discussion on
Google’s end. The AEDE clearly didn’t see Google simply removing the
service entirely in under a week. Several publishers in Spain have
argued against the new law, claiming it is bad for business. Google News
can bring hundreds of thousands of views in per week for large scale
publishers, and even small publishers are able to get views due to the
application process being open for any and all websites.
Google has always worked on a “my way or no way” deal. It
force them out of the Chinese search market, when the government began
requesting too much censoring. It has also pulled them out of the
engineering market in Russia, due to new server laws. The removal from
Google News will affect the general index for Spanish publishers,
meaning they will lower down in the rankings compared to other sites.
Several European countries have tried to tax Google News, but each
has learned its lesson rather quickly. This new charade should end soon,
unless the AEDE is happy with publishers losing income.Credit: You Can See Original Article Here
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