Google to attempt Credit Allocation

When we say Breaking News, the point of focus is the news no doubt, but in this mist of broken furor, we  forget to pay deserved dues to or even acknowledge the writers behind the scene. But trust Google to come up with a solution or two for this.

With an estimated increase in content writing jobs to look forward to in the coming year, Google is hatching plans to devise Meta tags that trace both the syndication source and the original source for Google News results. This way the foremost researcher retains all his credit and is at the forefront of all accolades. To be able to claim this originality, writers should avail of the original source tag. In fact Google seeks to encourage all writers to use these tags and identify the rightful publisher.

However the reason this notion is still in its experimental stages is that this syndication will not point out the difference between the breaking news which probably just informs about the surfacing of a scoop and an elaborate detailed news update which probably carries more information than the article that ‘broke’ it.

On one of it help pages, Google quoted, “We think it is a promising method for detecting originality among a diverse set of news articles, but we won’t know for sure until we’ve seen a lot of data. By releasing this tag, we’re asking publishers to participate in an experiment that we hope will improve Google News and, ultimately, online journalism.”

As of now, it’s difficult to say if Online Journalism can rely on Meta tags to accurately recognize true sources. However, if put to effect marketers shouldn’t demean its value in terms of potential traffic and revenue.