Google isn’t leaving Australia after all; signs news deal with Aussie media outfit

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Google lately threatened to depart Australia after the nation proposed a brand new legislation that mandates tech giants like Google to pay media shops in the nation for utilizing their contents. Google referred to as the legislation “unworkable” and said that they’d be withdrawing just a few of their key companies from Australia if the brand new rules had been enforced.

In a brand new twist, Google has signed a brand new cope with Australia’s Seven West Media Ltd. Ths was introduced by Seven West in an earnings announcement on Monday. The deal makes Seven West the primary main Aussie information outlet to seal a licensing cope with Google in the wake of the brand new legislation that may quickly go into impact.

Seven West Media owns a free-to-air tv community and the principle metro newspaper in the town of Perth. The corporate disclosed that it could provide content material for Google’s Information Showcase platform however didn’t disclose the phrases reached by each events.

Google had beforehand tried to achieve a cope with Information Corp and 9 Leisure Co Holdings Ltd however an settlement couldn’t be reached with each events. The Australian media outfit had been hoping to capitalize on the brand new legislation that may have allowed the federal government to set the web big’s content material charges in the absence of a non-public deal.

The deal may very well be seen as a blow to Microsoft who’s gearing as much as challenge its Bing search as a substitute for Google search engine if the  main search big decides to drag out of Australia. That apparently received’t be occurring.

Google’s Australia CEO Mel Silva said that the U.S. firm was “proud to assist authentic, trusted, and high quality journalism” by that includes Seven on its platform. This may very well be seen because the CEO recanting his earlier assertion final month the place he informed a parliamentary listening to that Google would pull its search engine from Australia if the so-called Information Media Bargaining Code grew to become legislation.

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