Google is like a poster in the newsagent’s window for publishers, tech giant says
Google Australia responds to government’s move to force it to pay for content by arguing it provides publishers with free advertising
Google search is the internet-age equivalent of a newspaper poster in a newsagent’s window, and publishers benefit by getting billions of visitors to their websites free of charge, Google Australia has said.
The local arm of Google was responding to the government’s assertion that Australian news content is “lucrative for the tech titans”, and Google and Facebook should be paying publishers millions of dollars annually for using it.