The Google News Blog announced that they will be hosting original contents from the Associated Press (sample news article), Agence France-Presse (sample), UK Press Association and the Canadian Press on Google News, so you don’t have to read the same wire story over and over and over again by removing the duplicated contents from the search results.

Google’s reasons?

Because the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, UK Press Association and the Canadian Press don’t have a consumer website where they publish their content, they have not been able to benefit from the traffic that Google News drives to other publishers. As a result, we’re hosting it on Google News.

Removing duplicate contents means sending less traffic to other news sites (though I kinda agree that it’s good for the users) and more page views on Google News, which translates into revenue if they choose to put “relevant advertisements” on the news articles.