The Search Engine Blog

Google will be offering news direct from a number of news wire services including AP. These stories will be the original, unedited version you typically see in printed newspapers and their online versions. Google will additionally be enforcing their duplicate content controls eliminating any links to news sources carrying the same story. This means a big blow to newspapers purchasing the same content. Of course I personally would prefer the full version of the story as would many others. Regardless of duplicate removal, I’d go for the Google version anyway.

Newspapers can still purchase ads to news stories..of course. If newspapers want to stay on top, they’ll have to change what they are doing. Either edit the wire news more  (if that’s even allowed) or buy more ads. Of course original content would be nice too.

Google News Blog: Original stories, from the source

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