Google Halts Links to California News Sites

Google is pulling links to California news sites ahead of pending news-focused legislation.That bill, dubbed the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), would require Google to pay for providing news content.Jaffer Zaidi, Google’s vice president of global news partnerships, said in a Friday (April 12) blog entry that the tech giant would conduct “a short-term test for a small percentage of California users” to study how the proposed legislation would impact the company’s products. “Until there’s clar ...