What's Next For Google News

Stony Stevenson writes in with a Computerworld interview with a Google product manager talking about what's coming up for Google News, such as the possible addition of a video component and closer cooperation with YouTube. "One of Google's most popular and controversial services, Google News, is the aggregation and search site that media companies love to hate because it has become a major source of Web traffic and frustrations for many of them.... 'In an ideal world, Google News would show you who broke the story and the other articles that built on that. There are places where we're not doing that perfectly today.'"

What's so bad about traffic?

[Lockejaw]

the aggregation and search site that media companies love to hate because it has become a major source of Web traffic and frustrations for many of them

If you'd rather not have the traffic, just say who you are, and I'll gladly avoid your site!

Re:EPIC

[rockout]

Are you kidding me? I'm supposed to listen to that entire thing? I want my predictions of media-in-the-future presented to me in easily digested 30-second sound bites, dammit.

In fact, I've already lost interest in typing th