You're conflating two entirely different issues here (though you're not alone in that, the French government itself is likely to play one issue as a leverage to the other).

The French newspapers that are whining about google indexing their content, are already heavily subsidized by the government and have missed every conceivable opportunity to offer something worthwhile online or on dead paper. There are a handful of very vocal op-eds who keep advocating censoring or curating the internet, coming from the hurtful realization that anybody can express its not so special opinion on the internet - thus levelling the field (in France, like in most places I suspect, celebrity journalists mostly offer vapid copycat opinions).

So, I agree, they're despicable.

Now, there's an entirely different issue: how big companies can get away not paying taxes. This is what this news item is about.