SYDNEY — Google has started hiding Australian news sites from some local users, in an experiment that comes amid Canberra's push to compel tech firms to pay media outlets for their content.
The "world first" rules, due to come into effect this year, will apply to Facebook's 'News Feed' and Google searches — and have drawn the tech companies' ire.The Australian Financial Review reported that Google was blocking several major commercial news outlets including its masthead, News Corp papers and Guardian Australia from a small number of search users.
JUST IN: Another 965,000 people filed for first-time unemployment benefits on a seasonally adjusted basis in the US last week, the Labor Department reports. That was substantially higher than the previous week.
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