Google has started removing AFP content from Google News, after the French news agency filed a $17.5m law suit for copyright infringement.

Google has said it is to remove content from Agence France Presse, the French newswire, from its own news aggregation service, Google News.

The move is in reaction to the company launching legal action against the search engine last week accusing Google of copyright infringement for including AFP story headlines and précises on Google news. The company is seeking $17.5m in damages and the removal of AFP content from the site.

Google is currently in the process of removing AFP content, but has not released a schedule for when the removal will be complete.

Source: DMeurope

The Hyderabad centre of Google provides engineering, online sales and human resources functions. The online sales and service team in Hyderabad supports Google's English language advertisers across the world.

Google also has an R&D centre in Bangalore that is involved in product development and research for its search tool.

Google Blog has a cool photo of Hyderabad Centre employees:

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