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Google has to push back to stop this happening in other countries. In any case, they can negotiate with price on SERP results ads and on the ads they no doubt p
by antonyh 6y ago
Google has to push back to stop this happening in other countries. In any case, they can negotiate with price on SERP results ads and on the ads they no doubt place on Murdochs sites. Things will balance out if it does go ahead.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Google leave briefly to fully illustrate their power in the marketplace - I doubt it's an empty threat. If I ran a AU based business that's dependent on Google I'd be emergency planning right now.
- aynsof 6y agoI'm curious to see what would happen in this case. Would DuckDuckGo or Bing get a boost that Google? Would Google struggle to recover that market share when it inevitably returned? Would public perception of Google take a dip, or would Australians respect someone standing up to the Rupert Murdoch press?
- ptcampbell 6y agoMy guess is Australians would continue to use a non localised version of Google. Bing and by extension DDG is awful for Australian results in my experience.
- sidr 6y agoUnless they block all Australian IPs as well. I don't know about widespread VPN adoption just to have access to Google.
- eps 6y agoOr they could just drop the News tab and be done with it.