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If Bing is the answer then Australia is asking the wrong question – ZDNet
Facebook and Google have many sins, but penance should not mean paying for the sins of Australia’s media proprietors.
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Australia looks set to become the sort of Microsoft monopoly that Redmond has only dreamt about, but rather than being in an area Microsoft is known for — office suites, Windows, Surface products — the country is turning to the eternal bridesmaid of search engines, Microsoft Bing.
This is all a result of the Australian government, and opposition parties, lining up behind the Media Bargaining Code that has been making its way through Parliament. If the code is finalised, it could…
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