Google, fresh on the heels of shuttering its doors in Russia, announced it will shortly do the same to its Google News service in Spain. Why? Bloggers (try) to explain a recent law passed in Spain that chased Google away.

In IT Blogwatch, bloggers bookmark Spanish web pages.

Filling in for our humble blogwatcher Richi Jennings, is a humbler Stephen Glasskeys.

Mike Elgan believes Europe is damaging Google’s goods:

Spanish lawmakers did something dumb this week. They passed a new law that forces Google to pay news publishers a fee for sending valuable, monetizable content from Google News to their sites.  MORE

We find Gideon Lichfield and Hanna Kozlowska in Russia — sounding paranoid:

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