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Google News offering major news wire stories
CNN might have just knocked out one of their major news sources, but Google has hired on a few more. There is a new feature that's helping Google get on the map for top news sources, and this one will help users quickly and easily find original sources from publishers. Google News has teamed up with some of the world's top news publishers, including the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, UK Press Association and the Canadian Press to get news straight from the source, without all the dribble sometimes associated. Google News has bitten down on duplicate content and now has "duplicate detection". This new process will display better search result sources with materials that have less duplication.
So you can start saying bye bye to the time wasted reading 10-20 different versions of the same article when searching in Google News, and start getting the original content from the original journalist. And yes, if you so choose, you can also see the results from the additional publishers.
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