Syzygy - 9:12 am on May 3, 2007 (gmt 0)

Not sure if others have seen this before, but it's news to me, if you'll excuse the pun.

Search through Google News (this is UK) and on the top right the selection criteria not only offers the usual:

* sort by date, or

* sort by relevance

but now includes:

* sort by date with duplicates included.

So, duplicate news stories are now being filtered out automatically. Initially it would appear that they are determining duplicates based solely on headline and standfirst! I've just posted a news item and seen it on Google News 10 minutes later, and directly above me in G-News is the same story. The only difference - headlines and standfirsts.

I'm hoping the duplicate filters remain at that level!

Syzygy