Internet giant news service, Google News, has been available in Spain again for almost eight years after the conclusion motivated by the approval of the reform of the Spanish intellectual property law in 2014.

The return of Google News to Spain is good news for users and the media, and coincides with the twentieth anniversary of the service. The company explains this by updating copyright law “Allows the Spanish media, large and small, to make their own decisions about how their content can be discovered and monetized”.

If you remember, Google closed the News in December 2014, when there was an absolute majority of the People’s Party approved – unfortunate – the reform of the intellectual property law that it approved legislative pearls such as the imposition of a digital canon, restrictions on private copying, criminalization of links for those responsible for websites, or increased penalties for shop owners selling console modifier chips.

Controlled by the dictates of AEDE (SGAE media and a coalition of natural enemies united at the shout of “everything for money”), the regulation aimed to raise tens of millions of euros by levying tax on its content as well as third party content, making it an inalienable right for any regularly updated website to automatically generate collection right on any other website that links it.

The result is known. Criticism of the Internet, media and large aggregators against the norm due to potential millionaire losses of virtual media; restrictions on the right to information; attack on press freedom; legal uncertainty or barriers to innovation have not become effective and the reform has been definitively approved. Google has already notified this I wouldn’t even pay the euro to AEDE and eventually ended her service, making Spain the first country to be suspended.

Google News is returning to Spain

The service returns through a dedicated web portal and a specific application that will soon be available for Android and iOS. The design of the site has been updated and its goal is the same as twenty years ago, when they started worldwide: “We help readers find news from trusted sources, from the world’s largest news sites to small, local and professional publications.”.

As you can see, the design fits that recent interface redesign created for all international versions of Desktop News, with the main news of moving the main topics to the top of the screen to better accommodate other columns such as recommended and local news. The basic idea of ​​the design is that the user feels like he is reading a newspaper but on a website.

Its operation is well known. Google News directs readers to websites when they click on links, which helps increase traffic to third-party content. In this regard, Google has announced that it intends to work with publishers to launch the Google News Showcase in Spain, a licensed product program that pays publishers to generate particularly careful content for Google News and Discover panels.

The return of Google News to Spain coincides with the twentieth anniversary of the launch of the service and This is good news for the media and users. “We believe that the return of Google News to Spain will help many more people find the news they are looking for, from a variety of reliable sources of all sizes, in Spain and beyond, and provide even more support for tireless journalists and editors. tell us news »explain from the internet giant.