Big problem with Google’s ‘coffee shop’ comparison

. I clicked it and it played a video of the Google Australia managing director telling me that when you search on Google the results are just like a friend who recommends you a good local coffee shop.

The government wants them to pay some money to news media businesses for the content news companies are making and, mostly, giving away for free. .Google’s managing director in Australia, Mel Silva, explains that Google is like a friend that recommends a coffee shop … but it really isn’t. Picture: YouTubePay close attention here. She means if Google pays, then search is broken. She doesn’t mean if Google gets paid. Because that’s Google’s business.

I’ve long believed Google and Facebook would end up funding content. The people who collect the ad money usually end up being the people who need content. One problem is user-generated content is rarely a carefully-researched news piece, it’s more often an angry opinion piece. Journalism is vital to make democracy work. You need professionals.

I listen to this nonsense, it made me laugh, she spoke down to us as though we were children listening to a story about boogeymen. They could have done better.

This sounds awfully like an anti Google comment piece Murdoch. I wonder why? Oh! Maybe it’s because they don’t want to pay you to list your news services. Shouldn’t you be paying them? After all, they are sending traffic to your sites.

Presents an interesting argument, although the fallout of a no-Google Australia would certainly sting a little. I'll have to remember to turn off all my AdWords accounts while I still have access ;p

$4.8 billions in revenue in Australia and only paying $59 million in tax .. wow ... that's why the rest of us are carrying the burden of paying more tax while big corporations not contributing enough

Lol your stupid little campaign against Google is so obvious . I'm so glad I adblock your site to hell and back.

Google is a lot more of a friend to people than an arm of the Murdoch propaganda machine that is for sure, and google actually provides something useful to the world that isn't just one side leaning news and what is basically a gossip blog in one.

This sounds like another money grabbing excersise by news media and government to me.

You know you can just walk into a news agency and read any newspaper without paying then walk out, right?

I find Murdoch press popping up in my feed more annoying.

Google shouldn't have to pay you because you can read one sentence of the article in a Google search. They pay you with clickthru. Go to and type in news. What's the first result? Anyone care to guess?

They are the victims of a potential state-sanctioned racketeering scheme, I feel like they have every right to 'whinge'. I hope they leave Australia just to spite you sociopaths!

She looks like Amy Santiago....

Annoying? Because they're against your robbery? You guys should be taken off internet entirely, go back to newspaper era, internet does not welcome thieves.

So by the same logic, Australian govt should outright ban ExxonMobil, Virgin, and Vodafone from operating in Australia, because they pay zero dollars in tax despite earning billions from us.

Lmao, coming from you?! ByeRupert

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