Google News Strikes Deals with News Wires

Google News has signed a deal which it says is aimed at cutting down on multiple copies of the same story, and will give the original authors credit over those who redistribute it.

The deals are with the Press Association of Britain, Agence France-Presse, Canadian Press, and the Associated Press. Google News will host the stories on its own server and co-brand the pages that the stories appear on.

While Google is actually shelling out money for this service, it does not mean that it gives preference to those stories. If a story from one of the four wires ranked below stories from elsewhere, then they will in the new system as well.

Google News business product manager Josh Cohen called the new system "duplicate detection." In cases where multiple sources carry the same article, the first copy is shown, with credit to the original journalist.

"By removing duplicate articles from our results, we'll be able to surface even more stories and viewpoints from journalists and publishers from around the world," Cohen said.

Cohen explained that the primary reason for the deals with the above wires are due to the fact that none of them have a dedicated consumer website where readers can find their content.

"Duplicate detection isn't just for our news agency partners -- it also enables you to find the original copy of articles from publishers and news agencies that have their own destination site," he added.