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Value Added Search

Integrate Value Added News and search results for your news articles will become more useful and relevant

More useful

Once news articles are clearly and consistently marked up, search engines can provide a greater quantity of useful information in the 'snippet' (the short paragraph on the search page) - as Google reported in May 2009.

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More relevant

A search engine is better equipped to interpret your news content and so can serve up articles that are more relevant.

Better filters

Rather than having to wade through millions of search results, a search engine can - using the news mark-up - provide helpful ways in which to narrow your search.

As Moritz Stefaner did using the NYT Article Search API and Elastic Lists:

Elastic Search

To demonstrate how consistent news mark-up can help search, we have built a Value Added News search engine, which is coming soon.