Google recently announced that it is now hosting content from four major news services, including the AP, on Google News. This is comparable to the relationships, which MSNBC and Yahoo have had with news wires for quite a few years, but it’s a huge step because it takes Google News’ work beyond indexing to include publishing. Interestingly, one of the agencies, which has signed on is none other than Agence France-Presse, infamous former applicant in a 2005 Google lawsuit in which it had demanded exclusion of all its content from the Google News index.