Google will pay News Corp for the right to showcase its news articles

[sabra]

Source: CNBC

Google struck a deal with the Murdoch family owned media conglomerate News Corp. as proposed legislation in Australia threatens to jeopardize the tech platform’s future operations in the country.

Under the three-year deal announced Wednesday, News Corp. brands in the U.S., U.K. and Australia like The Wall Street Journal and New York Post will be featured in the Google News Showcase. The companies will enter into an ad revenue-sharing agreement, develop a subscription platform and YouTube will invest in video journalism as part of the deal, according to a press release.

News Corp.’s stock popped on the news before settling later.

Google and News Corp. are unlikely bedfellows as the media giant has been a longtime critic of Google’s. News Corp. has pushed for regulators around the world to break up the company and scolded it for allegedly ripping off publishers.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/17/google-and-news-corp-strike-deal-as-australia-pushes-platforms-to-pay-for-news.html

[PerceptionManagement]

1. Clearly Google should be starving that beast, not feeding it.

[csziggy]

9. Google would have bene blocked in the entire country of Australia

News Corp has that much clout to have that happen.

[Miguelito Loveless]

10. And?

It's Australia, a rounding error on Google's income statement.

Also, charging a search engine for linking to your news is like a publisher charging a library for its card catalogue.

Not a big Google fan, but don't like the precedent. Also, classifying anything published by Murdoch as "news" grates.

[LiberalFighter]

2. I hope anything News Corp can be blocked in my browser.

[LastDemocratInSC]

3. So much for Google's "Don't be evil" motto.

[cstanleytech]

4. I hope they add a feature then that we can block fox news as a source then.

[Mawspam2]

6. There is.

Google
News sub app
Find a story / source you don't like
Press three dots icon at lower right
Scroll down to hide stories from... and click

To verify
Google
News sub app
Three bars icon at left of search box for settings
Scroll down to settings
Hidden sources - manage
Should show blocked sources.

[cstanleytech]

7. Thanks. nt

[usajumpedtheshark]

5. And this is why I try to avoid Google as much as possible. I remember when everyone was worried

about Microsoft being the evil empire. I think Google is worse.

[TygrBright]

8. Not-Dear Google: That's it. I'm out.

Well, I've been MOSTLY out for a long time, with DuckDuckGo my default search engine wherever available.

But occasionally I used Google for some specialized searches as their advanced Boolean was familiar.

But I'll learn to use DuckDuck's and/or Epic Privacy browser.

And scrub Google from my tools.

disgustedly,
Bright

[lagomorph777]

11. Use DuckDuckGo as my searcher.

Much less corrupt than Google, at least for now.

[PA_jen]

12. Well, google was my go to search - no more.

[TexasBushwhacker]

13. Well, my RWNJ acquaintances that dropped Facebook and went to Parler

also switched to DDG. Just sayin'...

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Can anyone tell me what Google already carry?

I know there's Google News, which gives you about a sentence from many articles, eg https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+vaccine+russia&tbm=nws
or just headlines: https://news.google.com/topstories?hl=en-GB&gl=GB&ceid=GB:en

Is this really what Murdoch et al have managed to get the law changed for in Australia? I can't believe that is stopping people clicking through to actually get the stories. Is there some other Google news product I've never seen?

[WVreaper]

15. Goodbye Google!

Hello Bing.

[Violet_Crumble]

16. Let's start a Facebook group for all of us who are pissed off at Google!

I usually take some time getting anywhere on FB, coz I check out charity and government Covid FB pages, but now FB has blocked them all, it's a very quick journey for me...