Buying a Google News website, against Google Terms?

[JohnPeters]

We are looking at buying a business that has a number of websites

Is it against buying a business that has a Google News website and continue to use the site?

Once the business is sold, would google remove the site from its News?

[TomRayner]

Hi John

There's no problem in buying this website and business from Google's perspective - it's part of the natural cycle of a business.

The only problem that might occur is if you made the new website simply a clone of your existing one, or if you set it up just to point links to your site and offered no value to a visitor.

If you kept everything pretty much the same, you should be fine and even the website's Google News inclusion would remain, provided that the site is still accessible to Google once you take it over.