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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. Re:Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    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"?

    Sure.

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