Google will pay publishers $1 billion to quell claims of unfairly profiting from their content

Oct 1 2020 by Fast Company

 

The search giant has come under increasing pressure from publishers and regulators in recent years about the way it profits from the work publishers do.

Google has announced a new initiative called Google News Showcase that will pay select publishers for content the showcase is populated with. Currently, Google has set aside $1 billion to pay publishers over the next three years to get the initiative off the ground. In a blog post, Google CEO Sundar Pichai described Showcase as follows:

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