Australians could soon have to live without Google

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Australians could soon have to live without Google

Imagine a world without Google, the search engine so pervasive it’s the starting point for more than five billion queries a day. That’s the reality facing Australia, where the tech giant is threatening to unplug its homepage in a standoff with the government.

Google opposes a planned law that would force the company and Facebook Inc. to pay Australian publishers for news content.

The Internet juggernaut’s ultimatum to local lawmakers - change the legislation, or else - has left a digital vacuum hanging over a nation that essentially knows just one way to navigate the web. Google runs 95% of Internet searches in Australia.

[Bloomberg]

 

[dualmeister]

DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.

The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

duckduckgo.com

 

[Grouter]

Australian politicians seem almost as dumb as our lot here. Like the way they're trying to ban vaping and encourage smoking as a result: ....'cos the money...
Full disclosure: I'm Australian.

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Cut them off from all of google's services lets see who blinks first.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

Fine
As of yesterday we're using Ask Mybroadband anyways
Im happy with it

You need to get the MyBB Enterprise Edition though, PM @Thor for more details

 

[TelkomUseless]

Can SA choose to live without ANC. ?

But there are other search engines. DuckDuckGo etc...

 

[Hamster]

Cut them off from all of google's services lets see who blinks first.

Switch to MS and off you go.
Switch to Apple and off you go.

I would miss Youtube and Google Maps though, not gonna lie.

 

[3WA]

Australian politicians seem almost as dumb as our lot here. Like the way they're trying to ban vaping and encourage smoking as a result: ....'cos the money...
Full disclosure: I'm Australian.

Ours will make Google carry 30% local content.

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Switch to MS and off you go.
Switch to Apple and off you go.

Sure, all those websites integrated into google maps will love that.

 

[Dan C]

Can I still google Australia ?

 

[|tera|]

www.dogpile.com
There Australia.

Dogpile returns all the best results from leading search engines including Google and Yahoo!, so you find what you’re looking for faster.

 

[Grouter]

Can I still google Australia ?

Result: Baaaahaaaaaahaaaa!

 

[ilikepi]

lol, Google says #OpenInternet, let us monopolise your search queries or else, Google doesn't know the meaning of Open Internet

 

[Hamster]

Result: Baaaahaaaaaahaaaa!

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[Goosfrabba]

Bing:

 

[Grouter]

qɐɐɐɐɥɐɐɐɐɐɐɥɐɐɐɐ¡

¡ɐɐɐɐɥɐɐɐɐɐɐɥɐɐɐɐq

 

[KleinBoontjie]

Imagine a world without Google,

Just buy Huawei phone. My wife's been Google free since last year.

 

[KleinBoontjie]

Anyway, I'm starting to think these big companies is stifling progress in innovation, for profit.

 

[|tera|]

I think the argument is flawed.
These news outlets have great opportunity to sell advertising and actual newsworthy content.
It's like walking up to someone, asking for directions and expecting them to take you there and buy you lunch.
It doesn't compute.

 

[borro]

Crikey!!!