Balle - 9:07 pm on Aug 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

I can't see this as being inline with Googles vision of organising the worlds information - this is more like creating information and not really their business.

If I were a news publisher I sertantly would prefer any commenting to be on my own website and not on G or anywhare elles.

As I see it Google News is a tradeof between the news reporting website and G. The source gets trafic from G News and in return Google can show a news snipper and sell ads on G along with those snippers.

To me this sounds like Google wants to hang on to their visitors a bit longer and show them even more ads before they leave- ads that are supposed to be shown on the news publishers websites and NOT on Google.

This is NOT a part of the initial "trade" made between News sources and Google News and I can only see this as Google wanting a bigger slice of the ads cake.

As a news publisher I would NOT be happy at all.