AP, Google confirm online news deal
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Google Inc.  and the  Associated Press confirmed on Thursday they agreed several  months ago to a licensing deal to use AP news stories on  products beyond the existing Google News service.
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(InfoWorld) - Google plans to enhance its Google News service with a feature designed to let users find articles with historical information on events and people. Google News Archive SearchÂ is slated to go live on Wednesday with an index of links to articles mostly from newspapers and magazines. Google built the service's index with links already in its general Web search index, as well as with links it gained access to through arrangements with publishers and news aggregators, said Jim Gerber, Google's content partnerships director. The service ranks results based on their level of relevance to the query, and preference isn't given to links from Google partners, which include The New York Times, Factiva, Time Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. The service covers roughly the history of the past 200 years and results can be grouped in various ways, including by timelines, topics and publishers. Google News Archive Search doesn't return links to multimedia content, nor does it include links to reference material like books and encyclopedias, said Anurag Acharya, a distinguished engineer at Google. It's not linked with Google's Book Search service. The links lead both to free and fee-based articles. Google merely provides links and doesn't get involved in monetary transactions between users and publishers for access to the articles. There is no integration with Google's Checkout online payment system, he said. The new service has no monetization model, and there is no financial arrangement between Google and the publishers it is partnering with, Acharya said. Google News Archive Search is launching with a U.S. English-language interface, although it contains content in other languages. The plan is to make it more global through collaboration with international partners and to launch it for other countries. To access the service, users can go toÂ http://news.google.com/archivesearchÂ or via a link fromÂ Google News. Google News Archive Search links will also surface sometimes on Google.com results.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Google announced Friday it bought FeedBurner, a Chicago-based company focused on distributing digital media through a technology known as RSS, or Really Simple Syndication.
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Also: Google Shared Stuff plays well with others. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Social news site has partnered with CBSNews.com, sharing content pertaining to the 2008 election.
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Years of rivalry between newspapers and the Internet portals that are siphoning their local advertising dollars gave way to a new partnership yesterday, as seven newspaper companies announced a wide-ranging deal with Yahoo.
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(InfoWorld) - Google Inc. has reached an agreement with two groups representing authors and photographers in Belgium that had objected to the way the company indexes and displays their content on its Google News Web site. The agreements with Sofam, which says it represents 3,700 photographers, and Scam, which represents 20,000 writers, mark the first steps by Google in resolving a copyright lawsuit that forced it to remove French- and German-language Belgian newspaper content from its Web site. On Friday, a judge in Brussels heard arguments in that case, filed by a group of newspaper publishers, Copiepresse. Sofam (SociÃ©tÃ© MultimÃ©dia des Auteurs des Arts Visuels) and Scam (SociÃ©tÃ© Civile des Auteurs Multimedia) were among several smaller groups that had joined Copiepresse in its legal action. "We reached an agreement with Sofam and Scam that allows us to make extensive use of their content," Google spokeswoman Jessica Powell said on Monday. The agreement allows Google to use content from the groups in "new ways" that "go beyond what copyright law allows," she said. She declined to say if Google is paying the groups or to provide further details. Google has signed a deal to use content from the Associated Press newswire that it described in similar language. Copiepresse has complained that Google violates its members' copyrights by indexing their content and displaying it on Google News without asking permission. Google says the use is legitimate because it shows only a snippet of news stories, and because it directs users to the publications' Web sites to read the full story. On Friday, the judge in Brussels said she would give her verdict in the case early next year. Google News has also run into trouble in Scandinavia, where it launched two weeks ago. The company delayed the introduction of the news service in Denmark after publishers there objected to having to "opt out" if they didn't want their content displayed on Google's Web site. And a publishing group in Norway has protested the use of its members' news photographs, which it says is not permitted under Norwegian copyright law. Google has declined to comment on talks with any particular publishing groups, but says it is open to discussions to resolve disputes. Â
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Australia's APN News and Media  on Monday agreed to a revised A$2.8 billion ($2.2 billion) offer from a consortium including Tony O'Reilly's Independent News and Media Plc. .
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Australia's APN News and Media   on Monday agreed to a revised A$2.8 billion ($2.2 billion)  offer from a consortium including Tony O'Reilly's Independent  News and Media Plc. .
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(InfoWorld) - Google Inc. has developed new tools it says will make it easier for webmasters and publishers of news sites to control how the search engine indexes their content for inclusion in the Google News portal. As of Tuesday, publishers of English-language news sites indexed by Google News will be able to include them in Google's Webmaster Tools service . This means that publishers and webmasters will be able to specify through a site map the articles they want Google News to index. A site map is a file that webmasters and publishers put on their sites to guide search engines' automated Web crawlers in properly indexing their Web pages. Webmasters and publishers will also be able to see a list of their latest articles featured on Google News, as well as a list of indexing errors made by the automated Google crawler, so that the problems can be addressed. Previously, publishers' control over Google News' indexing was more rudimentary, limited mostly to including an instruction to prevent the crawler from accessing certain pages. Before launching the new site map tools, the company tested them with several news organizations, said Nathan Stoll, Google News product manager. Stoll said publishers had asked for more "transparency and control" of what content is indexed specifically by Google News Google News is a portal for news in which Google aggregates headlines, short text snippets and thumbnail pictures linked to the original articles on news organizations' Web sites.Â Google News is at the center of a lawsuit brought by the news agency Agence France Presse,Â which alleges copyright infringement from Google's inclusion of its material on the portal. Tuesday's announcement follows last week's news thatÂ Google, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. will support the open source, XML-based Sitemap Protocol. This protocol, which was developed by Google, will simplify how webmasters and online publishers submit their sites' content for indexing in the companies' search engines. (Mike Barton is online editor of InfoWorld.) Â
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(InfoWorld) - Google took another step in its continued attempts to improve its relationships with wire services Friday when it announced a program to host full articles from news agencies on Google News pages. Google News, a site in which Google aggregates links to articles published on news outlets' Web sites, is generally valued by publishers who make money from online advertising and as such benefit from the traffic Google News sends to their sites. But Google News has been a tougher sell for wire services, which generally make money by licensing their content to newspapers and magazines and not by attracting readers to their own Web sites. Agence France Presse , one of the world's largest wire services, sued GoogleÂ for alleged copyright infringement on the News site. Although never publicly acknowledged, it's widely believed that the Associated Press threatened to file a similar lawsuit. Although Google maintains that running hyperlinked headlines, text snippets, and thumbnail images from news outlets in Google News is protected by the fair use principle,Â it eventually settled with AFPÂ and signed a licensing agreement with it, as well as with AP. Friday's announcement appears to be the first concrete result of those licensing agreements, although the AP deal is now more than a year old. The AFP settlement and agreement were announced in April. Now, if they want, people will be able to read the original articles from AP, AFP, the U.K. Press Association, and the Canadian Press in Google News pages. Google also entered into licensing agreements with the U.K. and Canadian wire services. Previously, because wire services' Web sites typically feature either a small sample or none of their stories, the way to read their articles was go to the sites of their syndication clients, such as newspapers. The new feature unveiled Friday is called "duplicate detection," which lets Google News identify the original source of a story that may appear in tens or hundreds of news outlet Web sites. If the source story is from one of the four news service agencies that Google has licensing agreements with, Google will display the story on a page that it hosts. But the feature will benefit all types of news outlets, not just wire services. For example, if a New York Times story gets syndicated, Google News will know that it originally came from that newspaper. For such outlets that have their own public Web sites, "duplicate detection" will simply let users click over to their sites, which is the traditional Google News model. Removing duplicated articles opens up more room on Google News, leading to a better user experience, said Josh Cohen, Google News business product manager. "Our goal with what we're launching today is to provide the best experience for our users and help our partners get credit for their content," he said. Asked whether the hosting of full articles on Google News will weaken the fair-use protection claim, Cohen said that it will not. "We respect copyright laws. When we go beyond fair use, we enter into licensing agreements," he said. The "duplicate detection" feature is already operational on the site, he said.
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In its continuing quest to index more and more information, Google on Wednesday introduced Google News Archive Search, which aims to make searchable thousands of newspapers, magazines and publications.
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Google on Tuesday took the wraps off a new approach to viewing events going on around the world. Instead of clicking on a headline to read articles, Google News Image Version displays photos related to the day's top stories.
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Subscribers to the AdWords program can now buy newspaper advertising via Google Print Ads.
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AOL is rumored to be close to a deal with Third Screen Media, a mobile advertising startup, The Wall Street Journal reports. The company had previously been in talks with Microsoft over a possible deal.
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Why does Google News get more press and blog mentions than other news search engines, when Yahoo News and AOL News have larger unique audiences?
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APN News and Media, the Australian media group, reported a 7 per cent rise in annual profits yesterday, as expected, and reaffirmed its support for a A$2.8bn ([pound]1.1bn) takeover bid from a consortium led by Independent News and Media, publisher of The Independent.