Google adds more ways to keep up with the news
A quiet rollout last week added several features to Google News results. The new features are meant to give searchers more ways to quickly get up to speed on a story. The add-ons alleviate, to some extent, Google’s habit of returning a whole bunch of newspaper and TV site writeups, many of them edited from the same Associated Press or Reuters syndicated reports.
A post on the Google News Blog details the additional features:
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Google to put more newspaper content on Google News
Google is organizing archives and feeds of newspapers around the globe, starting with U.S. newspaper content that has been offline to this point.
Google Vice President Marissa Mayer is expected to announce this, and demo it, at 11:45am at the TechCrunch50 conference. This new data will be served up on Google News and Google News Archives.
Google provides the following example of what it is doing: Let’s say you want to learn more about the landing on… Continue Reading
Google licenses AP and other wire content — and stiffs newspapers
Google is paying to licenses content from four wire agencies and will give the wire services more play on Google News — effectively stiffing newspapers and others that Google had linked to previously.
The move is controversial, because there’s already considerable tension between Google and newspapers, with Chicago’s Sam Zell, future owner of the Tribune Co., saying Google is stealing traffic.
Articles from the agencies — which include the popular Associated Press, as well as the Press… Continue Reading