Google news, your news?
01/08/2007
Google News has started to allow the integration of comments alongside various news stories. The Google News blog - available at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/states that "We'll be trying out a mechanism for publishing comments from a special subset of readers: those people or organizations who were actual participants in the story in question."
Although this isn't permanent yet, this may end up generating even more rivalry between news providers and Google who do not like their content being on Google News as well as their own sites at the same time. It is likely that the original content providers will not be happy with having to deal with too many negative comments posted on the Google version.
However, Google has always been keen on making the user part of everyday media, with services like Blogger and YouTube also in their artillery.
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