Google News is a website created by Google, whose updates will take place every 15 minutes. There are many editions in various languages, including English, Italian, German, French, Portuguese, Swedish, Russian, Greek, chinese, Korean, and japanese, among others. Each edition is tailored to the readers of that country, providing you with content that may interest you.
From here we will display information about the platform so that you know exactly what it is and the controversy that led to Google to shut down its edition in Spain. In spite of everything, Google News will return to Spain. When does it happen and how can we see its highlights? Here you we have!
What is Google News?
Google News is a collector of contents, a search engine for news that works automatically through tracking continuous information based on the main online media.
Platform select the items and ranks following a process that takes into account the sites where it appears the news and its frequency level. The news will be chosen without regard to any particular ideology, so that the user can choose the most interesting from a wide selection of alternatives.
Google News is a website that it stands out for its neutrality to not be directed by human, but the selection of news that after the show are the result of a computerized system. The version in Spain ceased to operate at the end of 2014, something that we will explain in more detail in the next point.
Why shut down Google News in Spain?
Google News in Spain was closed in December of 2014, after the adoption of a Law Intellectual Property in which it was left to manifest the law that the editors did to be rewarded by the news aggregators through the controversial canon AEDE.
The company, therefore, was obliged to close its edition in our country by the new Spanish legislationalthough not long ago who has come back to report on your return. As say from the policy of Google, the aim of this platform is to help the user to get more sources in order to obtain more information associated to a specific fact.
As they point out, it is a tool to combat misinformationat the same time that helps publishers and journalists, to increase your number of readers by providing a free traffic that can benefit them very positively.
That way, the new copyright law makes the Spanish media of communication decide on their own content, that is to say, the manner in which they will appear on the internet and the income generated by them.
In this regard, Google confirms that you are willing to work with the media to reach as many agreements as may be necessary in order to protect its rights under this new law.
In the same way, are committed to offer your program of licensed products, Spain Google News Showcase, offering new experiences, to pay publishers for the content care that they like and that will go to the panels both Google News as Discover.
Google News Spain returns to work
Google has already confirmed that re-open Google News in Spain in the early 2022 after that, the Spanish Government approved royal decree-law, the fruit of the european regulations that eliminates the collective management of copyright in the digital frame. In this way, the media will be able to negotiate with Google to individually and with total freedom.
Starting next year, Google News Spain returns to work and will have links to practical content and relevant that comes from many different sources. Thus, the Spanish public will be able to find more information related to a current news story or to a specific topic, while the media will have a new aid that will generate more traffic on your pages and they will seek greater number of readers.
After the adoption of this royal decree, Google said it had already had "the best conditions for the potential launch of the platform in Spain," but, before doing so possible, they needed to study point-by-point the new law.
Since Google Spain are clear that journalism requires the collaboration of technological meansthe Government and media information to be able to move forward and have a promising future. In fact, the international company is ready to help the media to enhance its growth through the transformation of their business models through initiatives such as Google News Initiative.
Now, not everyone is happy with the new decree-law. Without going more far, Cedar wood, and the association of authors and publishers of books, newspapers and magazines, regrets the elimination of the collective management of mandatory weaken the system of protection and lead to legal uncertainty.
Much the same happens in the case of FAPE, the Federation of Associations of Journalists of Spain, from where the view that the abolition of the mandatory collective management affects to the authors, facilitating agreements between individual platforms and publishers, who do not cease to be opaque. According to say, the previous model allowed a "negotiation balanced on the parties", as well as greater transparency in contracts and security to the authors to perceive the part that corresponded after having been used in his work.
In terms of AMIthe association of media information, it has been shown to be more prudent in terms of the decision of the Government, but has always expressed itself in favor of the system previously in place.
From the Club Open Editors, which brings together hundreds of media outlets, are shown fully satisfied by the new rule. The reason they have given is that the editors of the media will be able to recover the management of their rights, that once they were caught up by the law, according to the opinion, it is unjust and harmful.
According to CLABEthis Royal Decree means a significant change for the publishing industry and its future relationship with the content aggregators such as Google News. The association took a lot of time committed to this change in legislation to create other business opportunities and generating revenue according to the technology and digitization current.
How to see Google News in Spain?
Google News in English shall not have place in Spain to 2022. However, it is possible to access the different international versions. Through the support website of Google you can check other editions in different languages, which also assumedmos Google international News in English prothe assignor of Latin america and all the hispanic audience in the united States.
If this is the first time you see Google News, you might think that is not much to find other stories that have nothing to do with Spain. However, Google News account with excellent customization options you can find it in the personal dashboard. From here it is possible to add the sections that you are interested to take a look at the most relevant news items according to the places and issues that you are more attractive.
That way, you'll be able to generate specific sections including words such as "Spain" or "Madrid". You can also include them in your account as a main sections, so that each time you open Google News, to appear before you to the most important news associated with the content that you really are concerned about or interested in. The only thing you need to be able to access this system customization is to have a Google account.
Without going any further, despite being an international version as the Latin, the widget created by weather.com it will offer you the weather forecast of the Spanish region where you are located. That way you feel like you're at the Google News Spanish who very soon will see the light.
In the upper right corner you can access a configuration that will allow you to select the means of your choice and customize them to receive updates on a frequent basis. That way you'll get news panel very useful designed to your taste.
Google News some time ago that he decided to completely revamp the design, offering a minimalist style. Previously, there were a multitude of boxes or reduced images with photos of the most important news that could overwhelm, something that changed for an interface more clean and tidy.
Each topic is focused on different perspectives depending on the way in which to present the media the same news. The user can also expand the panel from the bottom right corner and click on the option "View full story" to display the list of existing news on the matter.
Be that as it may, Google News has an optimum performance to keep informed to the user, but also allows you to review the settings in the panel to make it more functional on the basis of their preferences.
