Google said Friday that it would start to test limiting some users’ access to links from California news outlets. The alliance, which represents publishers in the news and magazine industry, said Google’s actions appear “to either be coercive or retaliatory, driven by Google’s opposition to a pending legislative measure in Sacramento.” The proposed state measure in question, called the California …
Google says it will start removing links to California news websites for some users in California. The move from Google comes in response to the pending California Journalism Preservation Act, which would require Google to pay a fee for linking users in the state to news articles. Google, in the testing phase, will remove links to California news websites, potentially …
Google plans to remove links to California news sites from its search results for some users. The bill, if signed into law, would require companies including Google to fork over a “journalism usage fee” when they sell ads next to news content. “We have long said that this is the wrong approach to supporting journalism,” Jaffer Zaidi, vice president of …
