I'm used to making many personal sites but I'm about making a commercial site and i'm going through so many problems now... Especially with licensing and content that is provided free without worries for personal sites.
I was initially trying to use google news to get feeds about companies in Nigeria and display them on the site. so basically if i wanted to related news about "Zenith Bank Plc" in Nigeria the rss feed would be
http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&hl=en&ned=us&scoring=n&q=%22Zenith+Bank%22&ie=UTF-8&output=rssBut looking through google's terms and agreement
"2. Use of the Service. You may only display the content of the Service for your own personal use (i.e., non-commercial use) and may not otherwise copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works, or publicly display any content. For example, you may not use the Service to sell a product or service; use the Service to increase traffic to your Web site for commercial reasons, such as advertising sales; take the results from the Service and reformat and display them, or use any robot, spider, other device or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Service. If you are uncertain whether your intended use of the Service is permissible, please contact us. In addition, Google shall have the right in its sole discretion to suspend or terminate the Service or your access to it. "
Same for Yahoo and a few other sites...
Are there any methods to get news feeds? I completely intend to attribute the content to whatever source, i just need a way to find news about companies. I am willing to pay as long as its not an arm or leg.
Also if it helps, i might have a small list of sites that probably span all the good news sites that have information about companies in Nigeria.
PS: Also i don't intend on copying the news to my site.. just a teaser and then the viewers can follow the link to the original source
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