Farewell to Google News in Spain – Daily Mail

The Google News service with over seventy international editions and 35 languages, closes today in Spain by the rejection of Google to pay the media for the use of its online content, as stated in the new Spanish Property Law Intellectual (LPI) to enter into force.

Google and its promise and cancel this service in Spain, so that from this morning when the user accesses it is redirected to a page support where technological explains, “published by the Spanish publishers no longer appear in Google News”

“We regret to inform you that Google News has closed in Spain.”; “We understand that users like you may be able unhappy with this new situation and we want to explain the reasons why we have taken this decision,” indicated on the page.

Following the adoption of the reform of the Intellectual Property Law (LPI) “We had to close the service Google News in Spain,” adds the technology.

“This new law requires any Spanish publication receivables, willy-nilly, services as Google News to show the smallest fragment of its publications. Because Google News is a service that does not generate revenue (not show advertising on the website), this new approach is simply unsustainable. “

Google in a statement last Thursday, when the ad company that today would close Google News, its director, Richard Gingras, recalled gratuity for a service that does not discriminate by size and includes both large international newspapers as smaller and local .

Hundreds of millions of users worldwide access delighted to it, also in Spain, remembered.

It also explained that most of their news media decided to incorporate this service because helps increase visitor traffic to your pages “web” and advertising revenue.

The origins of the service is back to the time of the attacks in the US against the twin towers on September 11 2001, when one of Google engineers realized the lack of information was obtained about the attacks on the browser when the keywords of the event “World Trade Center” is used.

Google is encouraged to develop this news service also because until now it was difficult to compare news from different sources and countries from a “webs” designed as watertight spaces.

Despite the closure today of Google News, the user can maintain access to media reports from the search engine on the home page, but will not display neatly as did news service