The pair are discussing joint ventures. The first provides users of Reed's Kellysearch business information website with Google's links to advertisers. Reed lost customers to Google as subscribers tried to get the same information they found on LexisNexis without paying for it. But chief executive Sir Crispin Davis says the company has won many of them back.
Davis said that for the last year or two LexisNexis has had a lot of discussion over whether Google is an ally or a competitor, that there is a logic to working with Google in one or two areas, and that Google brings its size and LexisNexis brings its content.
