Aggregator

In general internet terms, a news aggregation website is a website where headlines are collected, usually manually, by the website owner. Examples of this sort of website are the Drudge Report, The Political Simpleton and the Huffington Post. There are also websites like Google News, where aggregation is entirely automatic, using algorithms which carry out contextual analysis and group similar stories together. In computing, a feed aggregator, al... more

Also known as:

  • RSS aggregator,
  • RSS reader,
  • News reader,
  • Feed aggregator,
  • Feed reader
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