- Google News Stops Hosting New AP Content (paidContent)
In a sign that Google’s negotiations with the Associated Press over a new licensing contract may have reached a standstill, new AP articles are no longer being hosted in Google (NSDQ: GOOG) News; Search Engine Land‘s Danny Sullivan, who first reported the development, says that new AP articles haven’t been hosted on the site since Dec. 24. Google isn’t providing an explanation
Google and the AP have been in a bit of a tiff this past year. The AP doesn’t like that Google is linking to and hosting full articles and Google thinks the AP is overblowing the issue. At stake is the content that costs companies to produce – the same content they hope to make money from (either from advertising or charging for). Google, on the other hand, hopes to provide the best possible information to searchers – so they can place their own advertising around search results. Most content sites receive a good portion of their traffic from Google, so they’re not without their own power in the argument. It should be interesting to see how it pans out.
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