Adi Gaskell – Technorati, 10/21/2012
It really hasn’t been a great week for Google. It began with the EU ordering them to make their privacy settings more user friendly. They followed that up with the bungling of their latest earnings report, with it being leaked ahead of schedule, causing shares to be suspended after they dropped dramatically.
To cap it all, they have been under fire from publishers from around the world. Firstly the French government has been petitioned by French news publishers to charge Google for listing their content in its index. That has been followed by similar news coming from Brazil, where newspapers account for 90% of circulation have dumped Google News.
The Brazilian newspaper association claims that all 154 of its members have followed its suggestion to ban Google News from accessing their websites. They claim that Google is getting their content for free and driving visitors away from their websites.
