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google news adds an interesting (and risky) editorial layer Post date  08.10.2007, 9:19 AM

posted by ben vershbow

Starting this week, Google News will publish comments alongside linked stories from "a special subset of readers: those people or organizations who were actual participants in the story in question."

John Murrell and Steve Rubel have good analyses of why moving beyond pure aggregation is a risky move for Google, whose relationship with news content owners is already tense to say the least.

Posted by ben vershbow on August 10, 2007 09:19 AM
tags: copyright, editorial, google, journalism, search

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