Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you.

Canadian Heritage committee  I do not have statistics in terms of consumption by gender, but as I mentioned earlier, I think it's very important for those working in the media space, in the news space, to understand their audiences. One effort that we instigated, along with a university in the United States,

Canadian Heritage committee  That all depends on the individual publishers and what they want to do with their unsold inventory. It also depends on what networks they use to sell that inventory. There are various kinds of auction processes and so on and so forth.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll let Jason answer that. He's closer to the figures than I am.

Canadian Heritage committee  Indeed. In fact, I think we know that a vast majority of the world's publishers are delighted with that experience. Let's point out that their inclusion in Google News and their inclusion in Google Search is at their option. I think it's important to know the metrics that drive

Canadian Heritage committee  No. That's not the role we see ourselves in—past, present, and, frankly, future. As you know, our mission is to understand and organize the world's information to make it accessible. Our job is to do our best to connect the dots between a user's interest and the best-quality info

Canadian Heritage committee  We do it at scale all the time, and we don't focus on one population or on one language or another. We do it across the board. We have, as you know, a French language edition of Google News. Jason can probably give you an indication of how the percentage of revenue generated by G

Canadian Heritage committee  I did not hear this morning's testimony. I have heard expressions like that before. One point I would challenge: Google is grabbing nothing, from no one. Google was fortunate enough to put into place new kinds of advertising systems, highly scalable advertising systems. By the wa

Canadian Heritage committee  First of all, Google News and Google Search are products that in many regards are just about that, about diversity. Google News, for instance, when it was founded in the aftermath of 9/11, was created by one of our engineers whose objective was this: how can I get a sense of ho

Canadian Heritage committee  I think it depends on which part of the world we're talking about, how quickly they get off the ground and how quickly they find sustainability. As I mentioned earlier, one of the reasons for my optimism is first of all that the cost of developing a new publishing venture on the

Canadian Heritage committee  As I said in my opening remarks, obviously Google as a company believes very much in open environments and in open and free democracy. Our objectives there are the same, which is why we focus on how we can enable the right things architecturally. I think artificial financing of j

Canadian Heritage committee  I would agree, and I think we're seeing more and more of that. We mentioned Xpress in Halifax. You could look at Texas Tribune in Austin. You could look at Voice of San Diego in San Diego and at many others around the world. Clearly, again, as we look at that landscape and we lo

Canadian Heritage committee  I think it's important to note a few things. Yes, Google has obviously been fortunate. We developed a very popular product with Search. We also introduced, in a sense, new forms of advertising that have obviously been effective in the marketplace. That's not the first time, by t

Canadian Heritage committee  I will gladly. That's what I want to do. The point I want to make is that what's ever so important today is that publishers, as they evolve their products, look at how they can create products that obviously not only have relevance to their users, but can create new advertising f

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much. Madam Chair, you used the more authentic pronunciation of my name. I am Québécois by heritage. I can only apologize, however, that my facility with French is not good enough for today's hearing. I'm vice-president of news at Google. I oversee all of our G