A question often asked is… is news aggregation ‘stealing’ content?
This couldn’t be any further from the truth…
RSS aggregation gives value to news publishers, not take it away.
PHP RSS Reader was created with news publishers in mind and thus tries to give value back in areas that are most important.
For example – PHP RSS Reader only provides a ‘snippet’ of text from the actual content of each article provided through an RSS feed…
The reason being – aggregators need to be able to provide enough content to users to give them a preview that the article is going to be of interest to them, before clicking through to read the whole content.
A news aggregator is really a hub of information, collated into one place, making it easy for users to view the news they want under one roof.
The aim isn’t to ‘steal’ content – the aim is to bring content to one place so all opinions on different topics can be considered, giving a greater variety of publishers a chance to get their articles seen.
This benefits news publishers because they receive more exposure and this benefits you, the news aggregator, because users love having all their relevant news in one place.