Google to invest $ 1 billion in partnerships with the global press

Google already has some 200 partnerships with newspaper publishers.

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Google boss Sundar Pichai announced this Thursday, October 1 in a blog post that the American giant was going to invest a billion dollars in the global press.

Readers in Germany and Brazil must be the first served, and then it will be the turn of other countries. 

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According to him, Sundar Pichai's attachment to the press dates back to childhood, when his father read the newspaper for breakfast.

Today, the boss of Google

announces the launch of Google News Showcase

.

For this, it will inject a billion dollars in partnerships with newspaper publishers.

They should be, he wrote in his post, “ 

paid to create and select high quality content for an online information experience

 ”. 

News articles, then audio and video content should be available on Google News on Android, and iOS, Apple's mobile system.

Ultimately, the Google News Showcase will be deployed via the search engines Google Search and Google Discover, which are the Internet giant's personalized feeds.

Some 200 partnerships have already been signed with publishers in Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia.

Among them are

Der Spiegel

,

Stern

,

Die Zei

,

Folha de Sao Paulo

,

Band, Infobae

, as well as local publishers like

El Litoral

,

GZH

,

WAZ

and

SooToday

.

Negotiations are underway with India, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

For the moment, France is absent from this list, because negotiations between the French media and Google come up against the issue of neighboring rights, copyright reserved for the press.

But according to Sébastien Missoffe, the boss of Google France, the Google News Showcase should be accessible in the territory.

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