Google ordered to pay for news taken from publishers in France

PARIS — France’s competition authority ruled on Thursday that Google must pay French publishing companies and news agencies for re-using their content. “Google’s practices caused a serious and immediate harm to the press sector, while the economic situation of publishers and news agencies is otherwise fragile,” France’s ‘Autorite de la Concurrence’ said in a statement. Search engines such as Google account for between 26% and 90% of traffic redirected on news websites, the...