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Old 2012-10-29, 17:49   Link #24392
Xellos-_^
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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French President Francois Hollande is considering a pushing for a new tax that would see search engines such as Google have to pay each time they use content from French media. Hollande discussed the topic with Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, during a meeting in Paris on Monda

http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...76a_story.html
how would that even work?

All Google does is provide a link in answer to a Search. If the site provider wants to get paid they can put their site on a paid model. But how would the French government even tax something like a link?
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