Google News, take advantage of its return

• After eight years, Google News returns to offer its services in Spain
• Both the verification of information and the dissemination of local news become important in the renewed Google News

After eight years, Google News returns to offer its services in Spain. At that time, the Spanish legislation on copyright was restrictive for this news search service.

At the end of 2014, the Intellectual Property law required all news aggregators to pay the media for showing a significant fragment of content belonging to any publication or source. With these legislative conditions, Google decided to close the service.

The update, almost a decade later, of this regulation allows Spanish media, large and small, to make their own decisions about how their content can be discovered and monetized.

Specifically, the new intellectual property law empowers information companies and news agencies to negotiate independently with large technology companies a remuneration for the dissemination of their digital content.

This Google service returns as a news aggregator where you can find the most outstanding topics of the day, local or international news or based on preferences (science, technology, sports, leisure...).

According to those responsible for the technology company in Spain, both the verification of information and the dissemination of local news become important in the renewed Google News.

Google News Showcase

The technology giant has also advanced its intention to implement the Google News Showcase service shortly and with an agreement with publishers. It's a licensed product program, which implies a new experience for users and that pays publishers for the generation of value-added content, publishable in the featured panels in Discover and in Google News. With Showcase, the aggregator enables digital media to earn revenue.

In fact, Google announced at the end of 2020 a global investment of 1,000 million dollars to reward the media with which it reaches agreements to show its content in News Showcase. The company has closed agreements with more than 1,000 media outlets around the world and Showcase is now available in more than twenty countries.