{"id":31630,"date":"2021-02-11T18:16:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T02:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31630"},"modified":"2021-02-11T18:16:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T02:16:37","slug":"microsoft-boosts-bing-tech-giant-urges-us-to-copy-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31630","title":{"rendered":"MICROSOFT BOOSTS BING:\u00a0Tech giant urges US to &#8220;copy&#8221; Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is looking to boost its search engine Bing as an alternative to Google as Australia weighs a proposal that would require tech giants to pay publishers for news.<\/p>\n<p>Google and Facebook have pushed back on the proposal, but Microsoft has embraced it and said Bing could step up to take Google\u2019s place if Google follows through with its threat to pull its service from Australia if the proposal is enacted into law.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Microsoft is looking to influence the U.S. to adopt a similar policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States should not object to a creative Australian proposal that strengthens democracy by requiring tech companies to support a free press. It should copy it instead,\u201d Microsoft President Brad Smith said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/epbpjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwrrdtbrh_pmdhmmjqjbhlhjfdlcdf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/epbpjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwrrdtbrh_pmdhmmjqjbhlhjfdlcdf.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1613173482383000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGD_grmEaAuk5L5J9Pz2B17s9F0yw\">blog post<\/a>\u00a0Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is looking to boost its&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31631,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31630\/revisions\/31631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}