In December, Google News quietly stopped hosting new Associated Press stories; yesterday, it quietly started hosting them again. It told the man who noticed, the Wall Street Journal's Russell Adams:
"We have a licensing agreement with the Associated Press that permits us to host its content on Google properties such as Google News. The licensing agreement is the subject of ongoing discussion so we won't be commenting further at this time."
The AP wasn't saying anything, either, but presumably those troubled talks on renewing the deal are going a little better.
The way things sometimes vanish during Amazon's supplier negotiations has inspired a dedicated monitoring service, Who Moved My Buy Button?. Perhaps we need Who Wiped My Wire Service?.
(Sources: Wall Street Journal/Romenesko/paidContent/PDA/NYT Bits/WMMBB)
