MySpace to start online news business

Punters will decide what the news is

By Nick Farrell

Thu Apr 19 2007, 17:31

RUPERT MURDOCH'S News International has decided that the social networking site MySpace will have its own news service.

Unlike Rupert's newspapers which print what he tells them to, MySpace will search all the news on the Interweb and allow punters to chose what they think is important. MySpace users will then rank each story on the basis if they love or hate it.

It will be interesting to see how long it lasts before someone tinkers with the search algorithm which serves the original stories up for the myspace readers to review. µ

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