From aggregator to editorial product?
Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Image from GoogleBlogoscope
To this point, Google has simply aggregated and indexed news, but the latest roll out is an experimental feature that lets people or organizations who are part of a news story add a comment to the news that will then be visible on the search results. After being verified and approved, the comments will then be listed right under the story.
On one hand it enables a comment or other point of view that may not have been adequately covered in the story. On the other hand, it could dilute or even negate the story.
Read Steve Rubel’s POV on the new feature.