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Article posted: 10/31/2012 1:54 PM

Europe takes on Google, looks to Brazil with hope

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Cups bearing the Google logo are displayed at Google France offices. Publishers in France, Germany and Italy want their governments to impose a "news tax" on Google to save them from extinction, demanding a law that would charge the search engine small payments in exchange for links to stories.

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European news organizations bleeding money and readers are trying to avoid extinction by asking governments in France, Germany and Italy to step in and charge Google for links to stories the Internet search giant has always gotten for free.