[pessimizer]

The difference to my eyes is that while Google News processes the article, it doesn't spit it back out. It tags it for searching and for sorting into a directory, and presents it within that directory in the same way it would be displayed in any search engine.

I've always thought the riskiest part of Google News are the tiny thumbnail images used to illustrate each story section. I wonder if they pay for those; I think they might.