Google will get its day in court today, as a Belgian court reconsiders an earlier decision to fine Google as much as a million euros a day for copyright infringement against Belgian news publishers, AP reports. The Court of First Instance also ordered Google to remove the publishers' content from Google News.

"We're glad to have the opportunity to argue the substance," a Google spokeswoman said. "We think that search engines are real benefit to publishers and drive valuable traffic to their Web sites."

Google argues that it's counterproductive for publishers to block their stories from appearing on Google News as the site drives a huge amount of traffic to publishers' sites. Most blogs would kill to get a prominent link on News - but because the site is heavily weighted to traditional news sources, that is a very rare occurrence.

Google's new Sitemaps product, released last week, aims to make it easier for publishers to specify what content Google should index.

In other developments, Google has agreed to pay The Associated Press for stories and photographs. No terms released.