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> Google has agreed to create a €60 million Digital Publishing Innovation Fund to help support transformative digital publishing initiatives for French readers.
by ok_craig 14y ago
> Google has agreed to create a €60 million Digital Publishing Innovation Fund to help support transformative digital publishing initiatives for French readers.
While I disagree in principle with Google having to pay at all, this doesn't seem as bad to me as some kind of revenue share that I was expecting. If it takes a one-time payment to just get this out of the way, that seems less evil.
> Second, Google will deepen our partnership with French publishers to help increase their online revenues using our advertising technology.
This part worries me though because it's ambiguous.