--- title: "Spain re-opens Google News after Eight Years of Shutdown" description: "Google News in Spain re-opened, global 20th anniversary of Google News" author: "Siddhi Shaw" published: 2022-06-22 updated: 2022-06-22 canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/news/1677/spain-re-opens-google-news-after-eight-years-of-shutdown category: "technology" tags: ["google", "technology", "internet"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # Spain re-opens Google News after Eight Years of Shutdown Alphabet, the parent company of [Google](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1625/google-i-o-2022-is-today-here-is-everything-you-should-know) has reopened the services of Google [News](https://www.mindstick.com/developersection/news) in Spain on Wednesday, after eight long years of its [shut down](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/108505/what-to-do-if-your-computer-won-t-shut-down). It was reopened when the [government](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/276/performance-of-government-in-the-center) last year passed [European Union](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1592/european-union-ask-for-common-charging-port-for-smartphones-tablets-and-headphones) copyright rules, revamped in 2020 into new [legislation](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2355/data-protection-legislation-will-stop-the-exploitation-of-client-data-and-punish-offenders), and which allowed media outlets to negotiate directly with the [tech](https://www.mindstick.com/services/technologies) giant. The services were closed in 2014 after the [Spanish](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/312075/how-learning-spanish-can-change-your-life) government that was ruling passed a rule that forced the company and other news aggregators to pay a collective licensing fee to the publishers for using or republishing the snippets of their news. An announcement from Google was already prompted last year that it would re-open Google News in the following year. Therefore, Google had also launched a redesigned version of its [Google News](https://news.google.co.in/). During the time of its shutdown, Google conducted research that showed news consumption in Spain was falling when Google News was shut down in 2014, which led to a ten percent [reduction](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12951/the-importance-of-breakfast-in-weight-reduction) in traffic to Spanish publishers’ websites. ![Spain re-opens Google News after Eight Years of Shutdown](https://www.mindstick.com/usernews/645947/a79813eb-34fe-412e-a699-c2ff271f90fd/images/13295c52-4bb8-4215-b903-f6855a527e6a.jpeg)\ Last year itself Google announced, **'Today, on the global 20th anniversary of Google News, and after an almost eight-year hiatus, Google News is soon returning to Spain,'** Fuencisla Clemares, VP - Iberia, Google, said in a blogpost. Google has also looked into the matter of planning to launch Google News Showcase it’s a vehicle for paying news publishers, as soon as possible in Spain. The company will also continue to invest in products, programs, and funding through the Google News Initiative. --- Original Source: https://www.mindstick.com/news/1677/spain-re-opens-google-news-after-eight-years-of-shutdown Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.