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5th April 2003 Archive

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  • Google News: press releases are OK – Official

    Promises to write something down for Monday

    Pay attention: you may not think of Coca Cola, the Microsoft Corporation or the RIAA as legitimate news organizations, but Google News thinks so. It's redefined the term "news" so that press releases from corporate sites or lobby groups are acceptable content for the "automated" news harvester, Google confirmed to The Register …

    Music and Media 5 Apr 2003, 08:04

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