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Google Begins Removing AFP From Google News
An anonymous reader writes "Google has began removing web-based content of Paris-Based news agency Agence France Presse (AFP), from the Google News service. This past weekend we reported that the Agence France Presse had sued Google for displaying their photo's, stories, and news headlines on Google News without permission. AFP is seeking damages of around $17.5 million and requested the courts that Google News is not to display any of its copyrighted material. It appears Google is complying with what the AFP is requesting. Google doesn't have a timetable for when all AFP links and content will be removed from Google News, but the company is actively working on the matter, said Steve Langdon, a Google spokesman."
* Google is a search engine.
They're helping these idiots get customers. Free advertising.
If you're not on Google, you won't be found.
So now they won't be found. They'll fold, but be secure in the knowledge that Google didn't show a few pictures to guide potential customers to them.
No wonder the French wine industry is in the toilet... they can't even sell wine anymore.*
dude idiot, you got any fucking idea what afp's main area of business is? they don't sell to customers that would find them through google. if you're so stupid you don't know what news agencies do for living go hide under a rock and ask afp to make you a celebrity.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
I didn't realize you Francophiles were so sensitive. Those cheese eating surrender monkey fans now post anonymously too.
Google is not a news organization. They are an aggregator. Aggregators are GOOD for real news organizations. How the hell else would I ever hear of AFP? I wouldn't. I would never have any reason to go to their site unless I got a link to an interesting article via Google or Yahoo! AFP sems to be headed by the same Frenchies who thought the Maginot Line would be effective.
What is your penile percentile?
The first thing I'd do is point out to the world that the Internet is a web.
The second thing I'd do is point out that if you don't want your information linked on the web, simply don't put it on the web.
The last thing I'd do is wipe France clean off the earth. But that goes without saying.
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
"We surrender"?
Sorry! No, really, I love the French.
--Rob
Towards the Singularity.