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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."
AFP or APF or FP?
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Congress passed a law... it is now referred to as the Agence FREEDOM Presse... Please update the submission.
..for promoting their news site! Geez, who does google think they are?
MABASPLOOM!
"...I do it because I am French. I am a bad mother fucker, am I not?"
You kids today, with your online THIS and convergence THAT, you don't know how good you've got it. Back in my day, we hiked six miles through the trees and snow and mud to our mailbox, and we were grateful! We also had to pay for the damn thing, $0.10 a day, whether we got it or not because our thieving neighbors stole it from off our fenceline, and most of the time there was a little news and whole lot of ads.
Ungrateful slackers, the lot of you.
Maybe something like,
We are very very sorry for linking to you from our side of the interweb. Rest assured, Google.com will never link to your site again.
Have a nice day.
Whatver reputation the French may have in the US as "cheese-eating surrender monkeys," this incident proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that when carrying a firearm, the French will not hesitate to use deadly force against their own feet.
we hiked six miles through the trees and snow and mud to our mailbox, and we were grateful!
You forgot: "uphill both ways"
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Judging by your spelling, you are definitely a product of the fine Philadelphia school system.
Pray tell, which school did you attend? Bok?
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That's nothin'! At least you had paper! Back in my day, we had to carve into stone tablets if we wanted to write something down. We had to carve rocks just to carve into rocks! You kids and your email and your gmail and your paper mail... In my day, if we wanted to send someone a message we had to train Carrier Pterodactyls. You have no idea how rough it was... they had to pick up our messages and drop them at the right cave. Do you have any idea how many of us were killed just as a result of Pterodactyls just dropping news tablets???
How long must we be a victim of fate and circumstance?
As long as it takes to change our minds.
Thank You!!!
I resemble that remark..
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Indeed... it wont hit them until it's too late
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was I the only one who thought APF calling Google's mother a hamster a little out-of-line?
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Feyerabend
That is all.
google is removing France from Google Maps...
-pyrrho
If I were you, living in the states, I would be careful mentioning 'jhad'ing anything.
How ever will I survive without franco-centric views on world news?
The horror...
AFP: Being on the front page of one the most popular websites in the world is bad for us. We estimate that it has caused us $17.5 million!
Person 1: How has it done that!?
AFP: All those hits on our website caused us to go over our bandwidth limit!
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