Google omits AP content from news results
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- Jan 14, 2010
Google has stopped running Associated Press content from its news listings, as licensing talks between the two companies comes to a standstill.
According to the search giant, it stopped adding content on 24 December, though it can still be accessed through partner websites such as the New York Times.
"We have a licensing agreement with the Associated Press that permits us to host its content on Google properties such as Google News," says a statement from Google. "Some of that content is still available today. At the moment we’re not adding new hosted content from the AP."
The Associated Press has been at the forefront of the newspaper industry's battle against news aggregators such as Google News, with AP promising to lead a campaign against the search engine back in April.
"We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under misguided legal theories," AP's chairman Dean Singleton told the company's Annual Meeting. "We are mad as hell, and we are not going to take it any more."
Google's current licensing deal with AP allows the site to host content for 30 days after publication, but it expires at the end of the January.
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