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Google News and the AP Make a Deal on News Content

         

tedster

7:21 pm on Aug 30, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Google has inked a deal with the Associated Press to keep the news organization's content on Google News, an issue that was very much in doubt for a time earlier this year when the news aggregator stopped posting AP content as the two sides worked on a new deal.

In a brief statement, the AP says that the companies "have reached a new agreement on the continued licensing of AP content by Google. Under the agreement, AP and Google will also work together in a number of new areas, such as ways to improve discovery and distribution of news."

[mashable.com...]

Brett_Tabke

2:15 pm on Sep 3, 2010 (gmt 0)

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So Google caved? There may be hope from some big pulishers yet. With Google news in retreat, it is pretty clear G needed AP more than AP needs G.