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Information Technology News MySpace gets into news aggregation business | MySpace gets into news aggregation business |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Friday, 20 April 2007 | |
  
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However, the foray into the news aggregation business does not come without certain risks. Traditional news wire services have had their problems in the past with Google News displaying excerpts, headlines and thumbnail pics from their stories on its page. Agence France Presse in particular made it clear with a lawsuit that it wasn't interested in Google driving traffic to its site. Google has recently settled with AFP and forged an agreement with the service. In general, however, Google News is popular with web-based news content publishers as it is a population web destination and drives traffic to their sites. MySpace wants a piece of this action and believes it can do a better job than Google News drawing from a wider variety of sources. No doubt a large portion of those sources will be News Corporation sites. Whether MySpace News gives perefence to members of its own family of news sources remains to be seen.{moscomment} |
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