Google threatens to omit French media from search

Google and the French government are engaged in an on-going battle over news results displayed in Google searches.In a letter sent by Google to a handful of government offices this month, which was obtained by AFP, the search giant said it "cannot accept" the law's requirements and "as a consequence would be required to no longer reference French sites."
Google wrote that it "redirects 4 billion 'clicks' per month towards the Internet pages" of French media and that paying for news links would "threaten [Google's] very existence."
The crux of the French government's gripe is that it says Google is earning ad revenue by displaying news headlines along with a couple sentences from the article, according to The Verge, while news agencies are losing out on attracting advertisers because readers aren't clicking through to the stories. According to AFP, leading French newspaper publishers back the proposed law.