Google Inc.’s boycott of News.com appears to have ended quietly, less than three months after company executives told the technology news site that they would stop speaking with its reporters for a year.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt granted an interview this week to News.com’s Elinor Mills, the reporter whose article in July about privacy issues raised by Google’s search engine apparently offended the company.

For her July story, Mills went looking for details on Schmidt to illustrate the kind of information available through Google. She noted in the piece that his net worth was $1.5 billion, that he donated $25,000 to the Democratic National Committee and that he had attended the Burning Man counterculture festival.

She also included a link to a site where Schmidt’s home address could be found.

A Google spokesman and Mills declined to comment Wednesday. Jai Singh, editor at News.com, owned by CNET Networks Inc. did not return phone calls.

Source: AP