Google News readers will be familiar
with the search results they see when
a news story by AP gets picked up by
a variety of newspaper websites. The
story appears over and over again for
that topic, with each newspaper destination
individually linked, all for the same
content.
There is a new destination for those
Associated Press, Agence France-Presse,
UK Press Association and the Canadian
Press stories. Those organizations will
have their content hosted by Google,
the company announced on the Google
News blog.
Google said that since the quartet
does not have consumer sites to host
their articles, they haven't benefited
from Google's ability to drive traffic
to news websites. That traffic for articles
has traveled to newspaper sites that
are members of the given syndicate.
Another feature update by Google News
should make more views on a topic available,
beyond the multiple duplications of
the same wire story on all those newspaper
sites:
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