Is Google News Obsolete?
New products from startups and entrepreneurs are advancing news aggregation beyond what Google News offers.
When Google News was launched four years ago, it did the one thing that newspapers refused to do, and that was link to other publications.
The product was a hit with the Web audience, since it offered an easy and surefire way of getting multiple angles on a story from several different publications.
This hasn't made newspapers very happy. Editors often bemoan that aggregators like Google News take traffic away from their sites and subvert the editorial process.
But since the launch of Google News, companies and entrepreneurs have launched competing technologies that do a good job of providing news context. And today, the Web is full of aggregators and UGC sites like Newsvine, Techmeme and Digg, which offer many of the same stories, some impressive collating and contextual technology, plus a good bit of attitude...
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