CAUSE FOR ALARM: The planned closure of Google News comes as Spanish media have been hit hard by a prolonged economic downturn as advertising spending has plunged.
MADRID: Spain’s main web surfers’ association warned that national media will lose huge Internet traffic when Google shuts its Google News operation next week in protest at being made to pay for content, while newspapers called for talks to prevent the closure.
The US giant announced that it will close Google News in Spain on Dec 16 because of the law which takes effect in January and forces it to pay news outlets whose content it publishes, even if in snippets for aggregation.
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