"We're excited to announce today that eight news agencies, which are members of the European Press Agency, will be joining our existing Hosted News partners," business product manager Josh Cohen said in a post on the Google News blog.

"As with our existing agreements, these new partnerships will enable us to host and distribute EPA's original newswire content on Google News," he said.

"We hope to make EPA's content (which will also include ads) available in the coming months," Cohen said.

"We look forward to continuing to work with all of our partners as well as new ones to come, to help them distribute, promote, and earn revenue from their content," he added.

The eight EPA members party to the agreement with Google are Belgium's Belga, Spain's EFE, Portugal's Lusa, Switzerland's Keystone, Austria's APA, Poland's PAP, Hungary's MTI and ANA of Greece.

Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Google in 2007 signed partnership agreements with Agence France-Presse (AFP), the Associated Press (AP), Britain's Press Association (PA) and the Canadian Press to feature their content on hosted pages of Google News.

The agreement with AFP settled a lawsuit filed against Google in March 2005 accusing it of copyright infringement for allegedly posting AFP headlines, news summaries and photographs without permission.

Google News on Monday began running "contextually relevant ads" alongside full text articles from its partners hosted on Google News.

Google last month also introduced ads to the results of search queries on the Google News website in the United States in another move aimed at turning the news aggregation site into a money-making venture.

Google News aggregates headlines from more than 4,500 English-language news sources around the world. It displays its partners' content on hosted pages and provides links to articles on the websites of other news outlets.

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