Google News Spain, a free aggregation service providing snippets of news and directing readers to the originating site, has closed after the Government announced new laws requiring the news service to pay for the news snippets it uses, the so-called Google Tax.
Google News Spain to shut down
Google News for Spain, aggregated headlines and snippets redirecting to the originating sites, will close on December 16th 2014 ahead of new regulations being introduced in Spain in January 2015.