This is one more casualty of the big G craze. All news sites that I follow reported this tool launch by google. Even the ones like NDTV that dont talk much tech (the tool is not useful outside US, definitely not going to be in India in our life time, its not a news site which reports all tech news, but how do these matter?it is a google tool), had an article about this.

I feel so sorry for David Pennock and his co-authors and I completely agree with his statment that
In the business world, being first often means little. However in the world of science, being first means a great deal and can be the determining factor in whether a study gets published. The truth is, although the efforts were independent, ours was published first — and Clinical Infectious Diseases scooped Nature — a decent consolation prize amid the go-google din.