If your offering news that is being reported by 2000 other sources and your not a big player then you are really asking for problems.<p>The problem I see with Google news is that a long thoughtful, drawn out opinion/ investigation piece gets lumped into the same pile as  paragraph summaries in the 2000 sources. What needs to happen, and I think the best way to approach this is a combination of software and community, is that the straight news piece i split from the further investigation and opinion pieces and the best quality piece rises to the top.<p>I've also though about the possibility of making money from ads on a news aggregation site and then passing part of the profit onto sources based on the clickthroughs they generate, so basically it would be another incentive for content producers to produce better content.