Google may pay up to display ads

[QuintonB]

Search engines may be charged to display ads

News media companies in Spain will be able to charge search engines such as Google for displaying copyrighted content under a new law proposed by the Spanish government on Friday.

 

[AfricanTech]

and so the tussle continues

/popcorn time/

 

[Petec]

There are so many rights and wrongs, on both sides of the fence, on this one...

 

[Creag]

Spain is about to become a black hole on the internet?

 

[SmartKit]

So that snippet, the snippet that entices you to use the site is now probably going to be removed by Google in Spain. This in turn leads to less profit for the website, as people may now skip over your link. Not very clever.

 

[BBotha]

Search Engines can also remove them from their listings. And then good luck on getting customers to, do what we did before Google and, remember URL's.