Google ordered to pay for news taken from publishers in France

Google was ordered by French antitrust regulators to pay publishers to display snippets of their articles after years of helping itself to excerpts for its own news service.
 

The French antitrust agency gave the Alphabet unit three months to thrash out deals with press publishers and agencies demanding talks on how to remunerate them for displaying their content.
 

The search engine giant may have abused its dominant market power, causing “serious and immediate harm” to the media, the Autorite de la concurrence warned in its statement on Thursday.
 

European publishers have been pushing regulators for over a decade to tackle