BBC aggregating news from other sites

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: June 29th, 2009 Published in: Marketing

Not sure if this is new or not, but I haven’t seen it before.  Check out this page: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3676692.stm

The Newstracker system uses web search technology to identify content from other news websites that relates to a particular BBC story….BBC News gets a constantly updating feed of stories from around 4000 different news websites. The feed is provided to us by Moreover Technologies.

An example of the feed at work can be seen on this page, where the BBC site includes links to other news sources that cover the story.  A nice mix of national and local news as well, although they do state that international and national sources are given priority over local sources.  The links are passed via Moreover using a 302 redirect (blocked via robots.txt at the Moreover side).

Scott