Google News Hosting AP Content

Google’s deal with the Associated Press, the world’s largest wire service, has finally produced something. Google News now contains AP news stories, hosted on Google and presented on an extremely clean simple page (compared with the mountain of ads other news sites put around AP content). Google isn’t making any money off the AP stories, but the inclusion allows Google to eliminate duplicates of those same stories from cluttering up the rest of Google News, by pointing only to the ap.google.com version.
Google is also hosting articles from the Agence France-Presse (AFP), The UK Press Association and The Canadian Press. No word yet on if Google plans on keeping the content online and archived, or if the stories are as ephemeral as Google News itself.
This is wonderful news for anyone who is sick of the whining and moaning of news websites the last few years, worried that Google […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg