Google News is a portal for news in which Google aggregates headlines, short text snippets and thumbnail pictures linked to the original articles on news organizations' Web sites. which alleges copyright infringement from Google's inclusion of its material on the portal.

Tuesday's announcement follows last week's news that .

This protocol, which was developed by Google, will simplify how webmasters and online publishers submit their sites' content for indexing in the companies' search engines.

(Mike Barton is online editor of InfoWorld.)