If you want to learn more about Downton Abbey, a Google search might be the place to start. But now the internet giant wants to create its own hit programming, in a $600m move which could threaten the future of traditional broadcasters.Google built a $200bn business from arranging information in an easily searchable form. But as the dividing lines between what we consume on computers, tablet devices and TVs dissolves, the California company intends to create and control more of the content that its services direct us to watch.To read this report in The Independent in full, see:
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/its-the-biggest-name-on-the-web-now-google-bids-for-tv-supremacy-2356189.html
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