Anyway, getting back to Google-related things:
The AP finally decided to stop being a bunch of whiners:
http://mashable.com/2010/02/09/ap-google-news/After more than a month of proverbial radio silence, news stories by the Associated Press are back on Google News.
The AP and Google (Google) have been in talks to establish a new agreement that would allow Google to continue to aggregate and host AP content, but because the AP has adopted a hawkish stance with regard to controlling its content online, Google stopped posting new AP stories in anticipation of a fall-through in talks.
Today the Wall Street Journal’s Digits blog noticed that AP stories were again appearing on Google News. We have confirmed this as well.
When contacted for comment, Google released the following statement:
“We have a licensing agreement with the Associated Press that permits us to host its content on Google properties such as Google News. The licensing agreement is the subject of ongoing discussion so we won’t be commenting further at this time.”
The AP also responded, simply saying that it had nothing to add to Google’s statement.
