AP tangles with Google News
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As of December 23, Google stopped putting AP stories into Google News, although you can still read AP stories through Google News if the story was picked up by one of the AP's partners. Google confirmed earlier reports by Search Engine Land and Techcrunch that "at the moment we're not adding new hosted content from the AP."
The AP has been perhaps the highest-profile organization leading the fight against Google and Google News, time and time again accusing the search company of ripping off its content without fair compensation for news producers. However, the two have had a deal in place for several years to host AP content on Google Web pages.
That deal is believed to expire at the end of January, and as Search Engine Land notes, that makes sense given the timing of the last AP story added to the hosting queue. AP stories on Google News expire after 30 days.
For more, read "Hosted AP content on hold in Google News" from CNET News.
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Nice staring contest
We will see who blinks first. 30 days or so should give the parties an idea of who has the upper hand.
Economister12th Jan 2010 -
AP are kidding themselves.
Frankly, there are thousands of sources of news, and Google wll be able to get news from anywhere, on anything.
It also never ceases to amaze me that the news people think the content is theirs. How is this possible? The event occured to someone else - if anything, AP are stealing the news from the owner, reporting it, making money on it, and the ACTUAL content owner, ie who it HAPPENED to, gets nothing.
Think about it, Roger Federer wins Wimbledon. This is an event to do with Roger, not AP. Yet AP thinks it is the content owner?? Who's kidding who here? AP should get off its high horse, and admit they are ripping off others FIRST, ie Roger in this example.
As regards costs of production? Come on - in this digital age, everything goes on the web the instant it happens, in raw original content, without the need for censors to spin the content completely 180 degrees from what it was.
AP are a joke. The sooner they fall by the wayside, the better.
roberto_maietta@...12th Jan 2010
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