{"id":1330,"date":"2007-05-23T17:23:58","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T21:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/05\/23\/google-denies-deals-with-news-sites\/"},"modified":"2007-05-23T17:23:58","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T21:23:58","slug":"google-denies-deals-with-news-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/05\/23\/google-denies-deals-with-news-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Google denies deals with news sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<div> According to Ars Technica, Google says <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20070521-google-says-no-secret-deals-with-uk-news-organizations.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">there is no truth<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundayherald.com\/business\/businessnews\/display.var.1411787.0.google_reach_deals_with_news_websites.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent story<\/a> in Scotland&#8217;s Sunday Herald about the search engine cutting deals with news sites <\/div>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"margin:12px 0;font-family:arial;color:#333333;background:#ffffff;border:solid 4px #cccccc;width:100%;clear:left;\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"CM_CTB_Content_Wrap\" style=\"margin:0;padding:0;background-color:#ffffff;\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border-bottom:solid 1px #dcdcdc;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:8px;background-color:#eeeeee;background-image:url('http:\/\/clipmarks.com\/images\/source-bg.gif');background-repeat:repeat-x;height:24px;line-height:24px;vertical-align:middle;padding-bottom:4px;color:#666666;font-size:10px;\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/clipmarks.com\/clip-to-blog\/\" title=\"clipmarks' clip-to-blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/content.clipmarks.com\/blog_icon\/6bbedbd6-af12-42c2-9239-be3693a26522\/7C1FF59C-CE6E-4788-8D3E-CDBE2F8C5204\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"19\" height=\"19\" border=\"0\" style=\"vertical-align:middle;margin:0 4px;display:inline;border:none;float:none;\" \/><\/a>clipped from <a title=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20070521-google-says-no-secret-deals-with-uk-news-organizations.html\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20070521-google-says-no-secret-deals-with-uk-news-organizations.html\" style=\"font-size:11px;\">arstechnica.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"text-align:left;padding:0 8px;margin:4px 0 8px;background:transparent;border:none;\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><!-- CLIPPED FROM: http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20070521-google-says-no-secret-deals-with-uk-news-organizations.html --><\/p>\n<p>\nScotland&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundayherald.com\/business\/businessnews\/display.var.1411787.0.google_reach_deals_with_news_websites.php\"><em>Sunday Herald<\/em><\/a> recently reported that Google has entered into secret deals with unnamed UK news organizations for the rights to use their material on Google News. According to the paper, &#8220;It now seems that Google has accepted it has lost the argument over carrying stories without paying for them.&#8221; That would be a shocking about-face\u00e2\u20ac\u201dif it&#8217;s true.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"height:2px;font-size:2px;background:#dcdcdc;border-bottom:solid 1px #f5f5f5;margin:2px 4px;\"><\/div>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"text-align:left;padding:0 8px;margin:4px 0 8px;background:transparent;border:none;\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><!-- CLIPPED FROM: http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20070521-google-says-no-secret-deals-with-uk-news-organizations.html --><br \/>\nA Google spokesperson tells Ars that the story is not true and that the company hasn&#8217;t yet been able to contact the reporter who wrote it. &#8220;We have not changed our approach to Google News,&#8221; said the spokesperson. &#8220;We believe Google News is legal. We index the content of thousands of news sources online. When users go to Google News, they see only headlines, snippets and image thumbnails from the relevant news articles. 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