Google Lures Journalists to Google+ with Google News Integration
It's all part of search giant's social strategy
Last summer, Google started offering journalists a chance to have a photo byline attached to their articles in Google News. But since everything Google does lately seems to have an end goal of integrating its social network (Google Reader revamp, anyone?), they've started rolling out a new option: Attaching articles to authors' Google profiles.
“Knowing who wrote an article can help readers understand the article's context and quality, see more articles by that person, and even interact directly with them,” Google software engineer Eric Weigle explained on the company’s official blog.
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