Google is not stealing news publishers’ content.
News Media Canada has accused us of stealing news content, but how Google Search connects people with news articles is no different than the way we connect you to any other website online. We don’t provide the content, just a link and sometimes a small extract of the article to give users a preview. And news organizations can opt-out of being included, keep the links but remove the previews, and more.
This is how other search engines and the Internet at large works. While publishers receive traffic from many different sources, we sent more than 5 billion visits to Canadian news publishers last year – at no charge – helping publishers make money by showing their own ads to those visitors or converting people into new paying subscribers. This traffic drove an estimated $500 million worth of value.
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Let’s talk about Revenue Sharing on Google
We built Google Ad Manager to help publishers monetize their content and grow revenue. Over the years, we’ve continued to invest in innovations that improve our technology, so news companies can earn more from digital advertising and create sustainable businesses. Alongside our product enhancements, our dedicated news team partners with publishers of all sizes to uncover new ways to adapt and grow their business with advertising. This helps keep the best of the internet open and free for all of us.
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The bureaucrats need to get down from their lofty towers and do some reading. I do not mean textbook reading they did to possibly earn a degree. Google has posted information about revenue sharing for two decades. Canadian media have earned large sums of money from this gift from Google. More laws in Canada aimed at masterful and complicated rules will hurt the media far more than help.
Dennis Cambly
Journalism as Art 