section_path: History/Web resources
section_name: Web resources
paragraph_text: Web resources
  
  The AP's multi-topic structure has resulted in web portals such as Yahoo! and MSN posting its articles, often relying on the AP as their first source for news coverage of breaking news items. This and the constant updating evolving stories require has had a major impact on the AP's public image and role, giving new credence to the AP's ongoing mission of having staff for covering every area of news fully and promptly. In 2007, Google announced that it was paying to receive AP content, to be displayed in Google News, interrupted from late 2009 to mid-2010 due to a licensing dispute.
  
  A 2017 study by NewsWhip revealed that AP content was more engaged with on Facebook than content from any individual English-language publisher.