In response to a $17.5 million lawsuit filed by Paris-based news wire service Agence France Presse (AFP) in a Washington, D.C. court, Google is pulling the wire's content from its news site.The
lawsuit alleged that the Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant was infringing AFP's copyright by displaying the service's photos, headlines, and texts in the news search results. Google News, which
is still in beta testing, allows publishers to opt-out of being indexed and displayed in searches. --S.G.
