Google

Alphabet

Status Tracked

Covered platform under the News Bargaining Incentive; described by the media industry's April 2026 joint statement as taking a comparatively positive approach.

Last on record: 2026-09
Named in: 5 articles
Across: 4 cases

Named in 5 articles across 4 cases 25 connections: companies 8, mechanisms 3, regulators and bodies 5, agencies and departments 5, police 2, people 2

Key figure on file

27 June 2026

The date from which age assurance for logged-in Google and Bing users has been in force in Australia, under the search-engine industry code that comm… eSafety Commissioner, search-engine industry code pages

Articles naming it

Cases it recurs across

Linked in the graph

Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

The Reporting Rort22 articles →Media Ownership11 article →The Smear11 article →The Surveillance Rort27 June 2026The date from which age assurance for logged-in Google and Bing users has been in force in Australia, under the search-engine industry code that co…1 article →

Fig. 01Source: article scan · every article naming itAs of 2026‑09Auto-assembled

Fig. 02 / On the record

27 June 2026The date from which age assurance for logged-in Google and Bing users has been in force in Australia, under the search-engine industry code that commenced on 27 December 2025.Source: eSafety Commissioner, search-engine industry code pagesThe internet asks for ID →

Fig. 02Source: figures on file for this name, each tied to the article it came fromAs of 2026‑09Auto-assembled

Fig. 03 / Named together

The 12 names most often in the same articles as Google. A line's weight, and the number by each name, is how many articles name both. Grey chords join the neighbours most often named together themselves (two articles or more). Circles are people and organisations, squares are mechanisms. Named together is all this shows: it is not a finding about what the relationship is.

Fig. 03Source: article scan · articles naming bothAs of 2026‑09Auto-assembled