They’re Back: AP Stories Reappear In Google
Feb 10, 2010 at 11:01am ET by Greg Sterling
In the peek-a-boo dance of the AP-Google negotiation, it appears that AP stories are back in Google News. Earlier this month Danny wrote an extensive post about an apparent deal between the parties to allow the continued indexing of AP stories in Google News.
Now the Wall Street Journal reports:
New articles from the Associated Press have quietly started rolling out on Google’s news site in the past hour, ending a nearly seven-week absence stemming from contentious negotiations between the two parties . . .
Around Christmas, Google stopped adding new articles hosted on its news site i [...]
Filed in: Google: News
He Calls Google A Vampire, But Mark Cuban’s Mahalo Is Doing The Sucking
Feb 3, 2010 at 7:19am ET by Danny Sullivan
Yesterday, Mark Cuban warned media owners in a keynote speech that Google is a vampire trying to suck them dry, giving them nothing back and daring owners to block it. This is the same Mark Cuban who is an investor in Mahalo, which touts to advertisers how it taps into Google to generate page views. Is Google a vampire except when it works in Cuban's favor? It's compare and contrast time.
Cuban's speech at the OnMedia conference was reported by several publications. I'll quote from AdWeek:
"Google is a vampire, and you run scared," he said. "There is no reason to be indexed in Google."
An [...]
Filed in: Features: Analysis, Google: Critics, Google: News, Search Engines: Mahalo, Top News
Google News Allows You To “Star” News Stories
Feb 2, 2010 at 9:16am ET by Barry Schwartz
Google News has added the ability to allow users to "star" news stories. When a user stars a story (or technically, a cluster of stories), it:
Lets Google know that you're interested in that subject.
Alerts you to significant updates by putting the headline in bold, so you can get more information.
Allows you to follow your 20 most recent starred stories in the "Starred" section of Google News.
Here is a picture of the new stars on Google News:
[...]
Filed in: Google: News
The Latest On Google News Sitemaps
Feb 1, 2010 at 8:02pm ET by Vanessa Fox
Back in November 2009, Google News announced they were "in the midst of an exciting transition period" that included a change to the News Sitemap Protocol. News publishers have through April 2010 to modify their News Sitemap to accommodate the new format. What's so exciting and transitional? I asked Google, thinking that they were changing the protocol to prepare for some exciting new things in Google News. I was a bit disappointed in the answer, then, when they told me the exciting transition was simply the change to the protocol itself.
The changes do make things a bit easier for News pub [...]
Filed in: Features: Analysis, Google: News, Top News
AP & Google Reach A Deal – Sort Of
Feb 1, 2010 at 1:41pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Google and the Associated Press have reached an agreement allowing Google to continue using AP content. But whether this is a long-term agreement replacing the one that expired last month is unclear. And despite the agreement, AP stories won't be hosted by Google News any time soon, it seems. Yahoo's also struck a new deal with the AP.
Here's the statement I received from Google about the AP deal:
We have a licensing agreement with the Associated Press that permits us to host its content on Google properties such as Google News. Right now we are not adding new hosted content from the AP. T [...]
Filed in: Google: News, Top News
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