Have you heard that Google may refused to provide search results in Australia? It may be surprising but the news is true. Google has given a condition upon which the continuation of its operation in Australia depends. You may know that the federal government of Australia creates pressure on digital platforms to make payment for displaying content related to local news. This will be no more tolerated by Google search engine. So Google threatened Australia to stop creating such pressure. But remember that such decisions by google will not affect any services by youtube, Google drive or Gmail.
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ToggleDo you want to know how the threat actually arrived?
The threat came to the public notice when the Australian Managing Director of Google told in front of the senate committee that if payment of fees becomes the law, then it may encourage the financial and operational risk. And a point will come when such risk will become impossible to manage. So to stop permanent passing of new code, Google gave such threats.
What will the practical implementation of Google’s threat look like?
If the condition or threat given by google is not taken seriously, then a day will come when you will give the URL in the google search page, you will not get the desired result but a message will pop up telling “Unable to show the search results in Australia” or something like that.
Many of you are unaware of the fact that Google has given such threats once before to Spain for the similar reason. They also used to force platforms like Google to pay charges for enabling the display of the local news. Google finally converted their threat into reality. Because whenever users tried to search something in their search page, the system used to show unable to provide services. Users at that time had to move to other available search engines.
What other problems that common people will have to face?
Such shut down of google search may disrupt the regular operations of both consumers and businessmen. Google search algorithm works in collaboration with various other essential products like Google maps for which the general public can easily trace locations, directions, store opening and closing times and many more. Google also helps numerous websites in their maximum appearance in front of their targeted customers. This will definitely hamper the working of several businesses as it will be difficult to reach a wide number of customers in such a short time. They will then have to search for other search engines that will go well enough with their respective businesses. The process is definitely time consuming.
Let us discuss the alternatives available to us.
1.Dogpile.com
You can search for more than one search engine simultaneously. This is a great advantage of meta search engines like Dogpile.com. This has become possible for either of the two reasons:
Own resources.
Own policies.
2.Bing
Bing ranks second in the search engine market of Australia. It is a good competitor of Google. It provides facilities like voice search or tools like timezones, calculator, and many more.
3.Yahoo
Yahoo holds the third position in the market of search engines. You can enjoy almost the same benefits as that of Google.
4.Ecosia
This is powered by Bing. The income of this social business is generated by the ads displayed on its search results.
5.DuckDuckGo
This search engine will not allow you to store or leak any personal information. It is very much concerned with your privacy.
Google vs other search engines
With google it was very easy to come across certain specified websites with the help of its search operations. It was really flexible to filter search results. However other search engines work in the same fashion but you will definitely notice the difference in syntax.
Above all, we have become used to Google search engines. Now several businesses have to search for the search engines that may help them to increase their visibility. It will definitely take some time to understand and adjust with the ranking method of other search engines.
