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• Google renews licensing deal with AP for news content

  The renewal comes after months of negotiations

• Google updates News site following complaints

  Hundreds of people complained angrily about the changes rolled out two weeks ago

• Google, publishers team to develop online news tool

  Tool from Google, New York Times and Washington Post updates, prioritizes breaking news

• Google makes it easier for news sites to opt-out

  Publishers can now use robots.txt to opt-out of both Google search and news

• Google News goes offline

  After a one-hour outage, the site is now back online

• Google tries to enhance news browsing with Fast Flip

  The new product is an early prototype and contains content from a select number of publishers