Google to expand its news service

Google is to publish news content on its site for the first time, in an expansion of its Google News service.

The search giant has struck a deal with four news agencies, including the Press Association, to host stories broken by the agencies on Google's sites.

Previously, Google News did not host any copy other than search results.

The service scours the internet to pick up news stories and delivers results in a format similar to its main search engine.

On the Google News homepage, small extracts from stories are published, but users have to click through to the news source to read the full copy.

Google claims to scan more than 4,500 news sources and recently created an archive search and a mobile version of Google News.

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