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Google's New Meta-Tags For News Story Authors

Posted by timothy on from the tree-of-attribution dept.

EreIamJH writes "Google News is experimenting with meta-tags in an effort to ensure that the correct news source is credited with an article. The original-source meta-tag will identify the newspaper that breaks a story, while syndication-source is for everyone who repeats the story. Both meta-tags can appear multiple times — for instance an article that sources information from other articles would include an original-source tag for each article used in preparing the new article. While the intention is worthy, I look forward to lots of snarky blogger fights as journalists vent their hurt feelings for having been omitted as an original source."

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  1. Really? by voidptr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is there also a tag for the news source that properly edits it? The one, for example, that knows the difference between "brakes" and "breaks"?

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    1. Re:Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Is there also a tag for the news source that properly edits it? The one, for example, that knows the difference between "brakes" and "breaks"?

      Then there is the difference between "is credit with" and "is credited with". I wish Slashdot "editors" would call themselves Slashdot "reposters" or Slashdot "janitors", then I'd stop expecting them to grok basic grammar.