Photo / 123rfNew Zealand lawmakers should not be intimidated by threats from Google to remove its search engine from Australia, a tech expert says. He added that New Zealand websites may benefit if the search engine was pulled, as Australian users would flock to Aotearoa's version of Google. "They may also find that if they drive users from their site to elsewhere, they might not come back." "When we look in five years time it will be different, it won't be the free-for-all we see now. Google is not as well protected against competition as they think they are, and there will be development in this area."

Source: New Zealand Herald January 23, 2021 06:22 UTC