How closing Google News affects other apps
Finally, the Intellectual Property Law promulgated by the Government of Spain has claimed a victim. And what a victim. Google has confirmed that it will shut down its news service Google News, where until now it was in charge of collect and display all kinds of media articles and publications A great way to keep up with the news most rabid in any field, being able to carry out specific searches to find news related to WhatsApp, the politics , the wars, economy, etc.A step that will leave many users without the most important and powerful news source of the moment, but will also cause other notable casu alties for users of certain applications of Google for mobile .
Thus, Google will stop collecting news, headlines and summaries of these. But what about the other applications that also distribute information? Unfortunately the answer is that they will also will stop doing it Something that will damage the application practically to death Google News and Weather , where starting next day December 16, when it will stop operating Google News , it is presumed that only the weather information will appear Something that will leave this tool completely lame, and many users without the possibility of consulting the news informative of this application.But that is not all.
Another of the applications that will be affected by this closure is Google Play Kiosco The one that was previously known as Google Currents, an important news aggregator to follow the media and pages of interest to the user, will leave so to show all this data. In this way, it will be left to buy, manage and read digital magazines, but losing all its features as newsreaderAnd there are still more.
And it is that another of the star services of Google would be affected by the closure of Google News We are referring to Google Now, the company's proactive search assistant. A tool in charge of displaying information of interest to the userbefore he even looks for itAll this through cards that are displayed automatically after having consulted a topic on the Internet, and that Googletakes care of collecting for the user. Cards that would stop showing news from Spanish media, leaving local news out of this user assistant, unless there is some foreign media dedicated to reporting about Spain
In short, collateral damage that could well leave the user uninformed about the Spanish reality, as well as about the issues of interest in the media and publications of this country With this, the user will have to actively search for information, directly accessing pages of trust, or using applications that are willing to pay the AEDE fee to respect the new intellectual property law.Although Google states that it will continue collaborating with publishers to try to improve its user traffic , although he completely refuses to pay this tax to the point of shutting down his news service. We will have to see what this movement translates into as of next December 16
