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September 18, 2004, 11.43am • 15 comments » • 1,068 Views
German paper adopts Google News tactic
German online newspaper Netzeitung has announced a shift in its approach to presenting online news that mimics a tactic employed by news-aggregation-search-beast Google News.
Beneath each story, Netzeitung will be including crawled links to related stories from other publishers. Chief editor Michael Mailer calls it an “editorial-driven news search engine”.
In this sense, it seems, readers will be able to jigsaw and juxtapose the same story across multiple news sources, yielding a broader view of different angles. That’s been Google News’ big boon, providing massive net-wide context on individual stories, and now it’s being picked up by a single publisher. In this case, the automated links will be monitored by journalists, however; which should stamp out Google News’ quaint habit of picking as its lead stories such as “STORY TEMPLATE”.
The same kind of tactic could prove useful in the public service arena. To placate commercial rivals, publicly-funded online news providers may end up linking to their rivals’ stories.
(Via E-media Tidbits)
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