Spanish Newspapers Want Google News Back — techcrunch.com

The Internet is like a delicate rainforest ecosystem. You remove one player and the rest suffer and die. That happened in Spain this week when the government there began cracking down on Google. The Spanish government is requiring the company to pay Spanish news providers every time their content appears on the site. The search giant shut down Google News there in response and no content is currently available for the country’s major newspapers including El Pais and La Vanguardia.

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