60M Euro Smooths Relations Between Google and French Publishers 61
New submitter Flozzin writes with news of some resolution to the long-standing dispute that some French publishers have had with Google for republishing snippets of news reports without sharing revenue earned from the ads run alongside. Now, reports the BBC, "Google has agreed to create a 60m euro ($82m; £52m) fund to help French media organisations improve their internet operations. It follows two months of negotiations after local news sites had demanded payment for the privilege of letting the search giant display their links. The French government had threatened to tax the revenue Google made from posting ads alongside the results."
Re:Get it right (Score:3, Funny)
No they don't. This is Google News:
https://news.google.com/ [google.com]
That's not giving away the content, in any case. Each teaser is shorter than a slashdot summary.
And you don't already have to know the news to search for it, you just go to news.google.com
Seriously, how can someone be so anxious to post bogus info as if they're "clarifying"?
Are you kidding me? Come on, be serious. How about this one, on Google News now:
Twitter: Hackers hit 250000 accounts
USA TODAY - 5 minutes ago
Twitter hacked on the heels of several high-profile cyberattacks on U.S. media giants. Twitter logo. TheTwitter logo is displayed at the entrance of Twitter headquarters in San Francisco.
Now that I know WHERE the twitter logo is displayed, what more could I possibly want out of the article?