Google Still Has AFP In Its News

Agence France-Presse complained bitterly about its content being retrieved by Google News and asked them to stop doing so; apparently Google is still pulling AFP content into News. That content comes from a variety of websites, as IDG News Google News. Since AFP sued Google last March about this, and Google agreed to remove "text, thumbnails of photos, and headlines linked to (AFP) articles in external Web sites," the report said. A number of news sites, including prominent ones like the New York Times and Bloomberg, reference AFP as a source and byline for stories. These references, in turn, appear in Google News. I took a few moments to scan the first one hundred results in a Google News Google and everyone else trails Yahoo News in market share. A Hitwise report for the week ending July 1st had Yahoo News at 6.35 percent of the market, while Google News rated 7th at 1.74 percent. Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark Murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.