the internet has killed off some nice money-spinners, or so I thought. there was once a time when any reasonably large company paid someone significant sums to collect press cutting that mentioned the company or its associates. With the advent of RSS, news streams and search engines, those days are gone. But no, i discover they are alive and well, peddling to companies a service that could be had for nothing, if only anyone could be bothered to spend 20 minutes setting up some criteria. oh well.
I should say that there are circumstances where such services may be of use, where there is content hidden behind pay-walls, local papers with no net presence etc. But these are few and far between and probably not why a company wants this kind of service anyway.
Aside from an RSS stream on google news, i recommend unfolding news.
