Google newest product by Claudia Sonea

The relations between Google Inc. and wire services have been considerably improved. As a result the product "duplicate detection" has been released and it allows Google News to identify the original source of a story that may appear in tens or hundreds of news outlet Web sites and will display the story on a page that it hosts if it belongs to one of the four news service agencies that Google has licensing agreements with. Google News is a site with links to articles published on news outlets' Web sites that benefits mostly the publishers who make money from online advertising, but creates difficulties for wire services which are making money by licensing their content to newspapers and magazines and not by having online readeres. Agence France Press (AFP) sued Google for alleged copyright infringement on the News site and they came to a licensing agreement. Associated Press followed the example and signed an agreement also. The other two wire services that have an agreement with the giant company are UK Press Association and the Canadian Press. "Duplicate detection" it is supposed to improve the former system of wire services' Web sites that forced you go to the sites of their syndication clients in order to read an article. This product will benefit all types of news outlets and according to Josh Cohen, Google News business product manager, there will be more room on Google News and the user experience will defenitely be improved. Stay connected Google is blasting away…again.

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by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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