Google Inc helps newspaper websites make money through online advertising and does not misappropriate their content, a lawyer for the search engine said on the company's blog on Tuesday.
"We drive traffic and provide advertising in support of all business models, whether news sources choose to host the articles with us or on their own websites," wrote Alexander Macgillivray, Google's associate general counsel for products and intellectual property.
"Users like me are sent from different Google sites to newspaper websites at a rate of more than a billion clicks per month," he wrote.
On Monday, The Associated Press, a 163-year-old news wire paid for by member newspapers, said it was working on a plan to protect its content from misappropriation on the Internet.
On Tuesday, Google's Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, speaking at the Newspaper Association of America's annual meeting in San Diego, said AP has a "multimillion-dollar" deal with Google for the search engine to host and distribute its news.
Some journalists have complained that search engines run by Google and Yahoo Inc make millions of dollars off their news, and that it should belong to them instead.
Publishers from The New York Times Co to EW Scripps Co are struggling with a decline in advertising revenue that threatens the survival of some of their newspapers.
They are trying to find ways to make more money online to make up for what they are losing on their print editions.
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