Google News finds more trouble in Europe
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Google is facing mounting protests from newspaper publishers in Europe, the impact of which could ultimately affect the amount of content available to end users through search engines.
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Europeâs major consumer group said Wednesday that it feared Google Inc.âs takeover of DoubleClick Inc. would damage European Union privacy rights and limit consumersâ choice of Web content.
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Google attacked European parliamentarians and privacy advocates on Monday for trying to have competition authorities consider the handling of personal information in its $3.1 billion takeover of rival DoubleClick.
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By Stephen Castle  One of Google's most popular services came under threat yesterday when a court banned the search engine from reproducing articles from Belgian newspapers and opened the door to similar challenges elsewhere in Europe.
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LONDON/BRUSSELS -- Google Inc. has been ordered by a Belgian court to stop reproducing article snippets from French-language newspapers in an unprecedented copyright crackdown over what is a common online practice.
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Blog: Google News shows images linked with article extracts
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Google attacked European  parliamentarians and privacy advocates on Monday for trying to  have competition authorities consider the handling of personal  information in its $3.1 billion takeover of rival DoubleClick.
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Lawyers for Google in Belgium said on Wednesday they planned to appeal a court ruling in the country that ordered the search giant to stop linking to Belgian publications on its Google News site. The company is also refusing to add a link about the decision to its homepage.
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European data protection officials have written to Google warning that the search giant may be in breach of E.U. privacy because of the way it retains data on individual searches.
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Trying to outlaw using fake information to open e-mail accounts or set up websites, some European nations could run afoul of privacy advocates. By the Associated Press.
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A story run over the UK wires of Reuters this morning quotes a European Commission spokesperson as confirming that everyday customers of Google have been sent EC questionnaires asking their opinion about the forthcoming merger between Google and display advertising provider DoubleClick.
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It seems the battle about news scraping continues in Belgium.  From Reuters: A Belgian court ruled on Tuesday that Google may not reproduce extracts from a variety of Belgian newspapers, imperilling one of the web search leader&#8217;s most popular services if other courts follow suit. The case was brought by Copiepresse, which manages copyrights for Belgium&#8217;s French- [...]
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Nothing escapes Google's all-seeing eye According to an illuminating report yesterday, Google's new Street View might, if deployed across Europe, provoke a flurry of litigation from unfortunates caught in compromising positions by the facility's all-seeing eye.â¦
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Google Inc. said Tuesday it has struck a content-sharing deal with two organizations to partly settle a dispute in Belgium over news articles available through the Internet search engine.
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A Belgian court has ordered Google  Inc. to stop reproducing articles from French-speaking  newspapers in the news section of one of its Belgian websites,  a local press organization said.
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A Belgium court has ordered all content from French and German newspapers represented by the firm Copiepress to be pulled from the Google News Web site.  The Brussels court said the U.S. search engine is in breach of authors' rights and data bank regulations, Expatica reported Monday.
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Google News is getting a sense of  the past to balance out its relentless focus on the present.