For years now, you’ve been able to type a few words into your computer and get answers from an ever-growing sea of websites. Soon, however, this could change. The German Parliament this week begins debating a proposal for a new law which threatens to change the web as we’ve known for the last two decades - and make finding online information much more difficult in future. Dein Netz , to give the facts about the proposed law and to invite you to contribute to the debate, in person and online. local newsstand ... to pay royalties for exhibiting the papers and magazines” it has on display. From then on, the simple act of linking or displaying snippets would become fraught with legal risk.sitemap ). A further set of highly refined controls is also available to publishers through the robots exclusion protocol that we have blogged in the past.Google News in Europe. But Google is frequently one of the advertising service providers for the major news publishers (even of our most vocal critics in this debate), so our opportunity to make money is when users click on a link and go to the site of of one of our partners in the news industry. Looked at globally and across all web publishing businesses, Google shared $7 billion of advertising revenue last year.Posted by Simon Hampton, Director, Public Policy, Europe
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