Google News now hosting AP stories
Cory Bergman August 31st, 2007
Update: 
Google has moved ahead with an agreement it signed last year with the Associated Press, and it is now hosting AP stories directly on the site — ultimately reducing the traffic Google News refers to news sites. Not only will Google host the AP stories instead of linking off to newspaper sites, but it will filter out duplicates of the same AP story. So you won’t see multiple versions of an AP story from various newspapers, listed with the most recent at the top. Google said the end result is less duplication and a better variety of stories. “Creators of original content should benefit from this,” said Josh Cohen, product manager for Google News. “The goal for Google News is to have as many different perspectives as possible.”
Editor’s note: The story was updated to clarify that this is not a new deal with the AP — they signed the Google deal last year — just the implementation is new.
3 Comments Add your own
1. Anonymous | September 1st, 2007 at 10:49 am
Damn. I pay a ton of money for AP rights every year, and while it’s primary for the audience hitting our home page, I see a huge number of hits to that content from google news users. Guess I can kiss those eyeballs goodbye.
2. Steve Boriss | September 2nd, 2007 at 12:33 pm
See my post “Google deal uncovers truth that AP is now a competitor to newspapers, and papers are suckers for being members of it at TheFutureOfNews.com (Steve Boriss)
3. Joel Price | November 15th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Google isn’t even doing a good job with this at this point. I consistently get AP stories from the “The Canadian Press” as if I’m located in Canada. Odd!
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