Google News to Host Wire Service Stories

knhasan writes to tell us that Google has just announced a new program in which they will host wire news stories directly on their site. This is widely believed to be the first concrete fallout from recent troubles with Agence France Presse (who sued Google for alleged copyright infringement) among other wire services. "The new feature unveiled Friday is called 'duplicate detection,' which lets Google News identify the original source of a story that may appear in tens or hundreds of news outlet Web sites. If the source story is from one of the four news service agencies that Google has licensing agreements with, Google will display the story on a page that it hosts."

Comments

Re:It's a good thing

[LiquidCoooled]

I go to google news specifically for the variation in sources.
I like to see the varying articles and standpoints available for the same story (usually in the editorials around the actual feed).
If google starts feeding me a single specific variation with one POV its worse in my book.

Agence France Presse should know that

[unity100]

i didnt even know they had ever existed before google. And they should also know that i will probably forget them in a short while since they are not on google anymore. they lost enormous exposure to pursue some petty cash compared to what the exposure would have brought.

they can shove their copyright up their "butté" now - for its probably useful for only doing that compared to what it might have been.

dup detection -- fantastic for the smaller papers

[sdedeo]

I don't know why I'm posting so much today, but anyway.

This is very useful. As far as I can tell, it only means that you won't get a billion copies of the same AP, Reuters, etc. press release that many papers, because they have cut their staff, print in lieu of actually doing their own research. This is fantastic news, and will hopefully be another reward for smaller newspapers who do actually do something instead of print ads for car dealerships. If the Sasquatch Press has a Middle Eastern correspondent, their journalist's work will not be lost in the spam flood of AP articles. Of course, the Sasquatch Press won't have such a correspondent, but they may indeed have one for Sasquatch City -- who probably knows a hell of a lot more than the AP reporter airlifted in when the Sasquatch Robots gain consciousness.

Re:All your newsbase are belong to us

[Anonymous Coward]

I've never read my local paper for anything other than local news, which Google doesn't report.