Google says it does not misappropriate newspaper content and actually helps them by driving traffic to their Web sites.
"We drive traffic and provide advertising in support of all business models -- whether news sources choose to host their articles with us or on their own sites, and whether their business model is ad-supported or based on subscriptions," wrote Alexander Macgillivray, Google's associate general counsel for products and intellectual property, on the Google Public Policy Blog.
"In all cases, for news articles we've crawled and indexed but do not host, we show users just enough to make them want to read more -- the headline, a "snippet" of a line or two of text and a link back to the news publisher's website."
The blog post comes after The Associated Press announced yesterday it was working on system to protect its content from being misappropriated online.
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