Google News to Host Wire Service Stories

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 3, 2007 @09:25AM from the baskets-of-all-the-eggs dept.

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."

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Moot issue. by infernalC · 2007-09-03 10:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The issue is moot. Now that Appalachian State has conquered Michigan, nothing else will matter ever again. All meaningful stories are duplicates of this one.
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