How Smart Speakers Will Cope Without Google Search
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With Google stating that it may remove search from Australia if the media bargaining code goes ahead in its current form, there’s something of an open question about what that means for IoT gadgets like smart speakers.
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The full text of his submission is below:
Treasury Laws Amendment (News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code) Bill 2020 Submission 46
18 January, 2021
Parliament House
To the Senate Standing Committee on Economics,
I am grateful for the opportunity to make a brief submission for the Committee’s consideration, as it conducts its inquiry into the proposed News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code. I write in my capacity as the inventor of the World Wide Web, which I invented in 1989, first developing an information management system and then implementing the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol client and server via the internet. The World Wide Web is now accessed by more than half the world’s population, including an estimated 21 million Australians.