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What I would really like to see is a way that the original source of a story is promoted or easier to find. Too often I see a headline online and click it only
by jccalhoun 10y ago
What I would really like to see is a way that the original source of a story is promoted or easier to find. Too often I see a headline online and click it only to see that the entire story is "according to site x..." Then I go to site X and see that its story is "according to site y..." and so on.
While I know that some subsequent stories can do original reporting, too often sites with better SEO just republish stories without adding much and, whether intentional or not, often distorting some part of the actual story
- jawns 10y agoI've noticed that Google is starting to experiment with this. If you search for a news story, below some results you'll see a "Related stories" box. Some of those stories have labels like: * In-Depth: a longer article about the story * Local Source: an article from a source local to the story * Highly Cited: the article that appears to be most frequently cited by other articles * Most Referenced: web content that appears to be linked to from other articles the most frequently * Preferred source: an article from a source you've marked as a favorite See: https://support.google.com/news/answer/1217612 https://support.google.com/news/answer/1217612