Articles--10/19/2012

There was an interesting article on the BBC News website about the Google vs. France issue. If the French law passes, Google would have to pay to include French websites in its searches. While it's easy to see why France would want this to happen, it seems like a lost cause already. There aren't any obvious copyrights that Google is infringing on, which the law claims is the case. Now the other issue is Google's possible refusal to include French media sites in any of the searches done on the site. Should they be allowed to do that? On one hand, it seems a bit extreme to exclude an entire country from a search engine but on the other hand, the law itself is very extreme and it's no wonder that Google doesn't want it to pass.