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		gsmaverick on Oct 11, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rupert Murdoch Says Google Is Stealing His Content... I can't believe Google ever paid the AP in the first place. Seems like a bad deal from Google's perspective. They could have easily done without the AP's content.

uinuibui on Oct 11, 2009 [–]

AP doesn't compete with Google, they don't run ads. The newspapers do - if the newspapers were to all disappear but AP survived that might be good for an online source of news and ads?

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