Major Brazilian Newspapers Withdraw From Google News

Brazil's major newspapers have collectively opted out of Google News after the search giant refused publishers' demands to pay for indexing their article headlines and excerpts.

All 154 members of the National Association of Newspapers in Brazil (ANJ), who collectively represent 90% of the country's newspaper circulation, have pulled their content from Google's news aggregator, according to the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas.

Google, as the company has argued elsewhere, believes it shouldn't have to pay to include content because it sends so much traffic to news sites -- approximately 4 billion clicks per month, a Google spokesperson said at a media conference in So Pa…
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