Google Says It Helps Newspaper Websites

Macgillivray went on to defend Google's actions concerning newspaper Web sites. "Once a reader is on the newspaper's site, we work hard to help them earn revenue. Our AdSense program pays out millions of dollars to newspapers that place ads on their sites, and our goal is that our interest-based advertising technology will help newspapers make more from each click we send them by serving better, more relevant ads to their readers to generate higher returns."

Google maintains that its practice follows U.S. copyright law and that newspapers that disagree with fair use can ask to have their content removed from its index.