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Using these four websites allowed for the examination of differences between news retrieval tools because Google News and Yahoo! News represented a new approach to news dissemination called news aggregation. The final stratified sample contained stories from 28 different days, with 10 stories sampled four times daily at 6 a.m., 12 p.m., 6 p.m., and 12 a.m. Findings indicated that nearly 2/3 of Internet-based cancer news articles contained one of the five dimensions of uncertainty. Significant differences between news aggregation and non-aggregation websites were present. For example, significant differences between individual websites were found regarding the presence of uncertain cancer information. Non-aggregation news programs retrieved articles that mentioned one of the five forms of uncertainty more frequently than did news aggregation websites. 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