CANBERRA, Australia: The Australian prime minister said on Feb 1 that Microsoft was confident that it could fill the void if Google carried out its threat to remove its search engine from Australia.
A Google executive told a Senate hearing last month that it would likely make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government went ahead with plans to make tech giants pay for news content.
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