I am currently using another websites widget to display information on my website. But this is not original and there may be other websites using the same information.
Would I benefit from using my own information - making it original content?
[quote=“Google Webmaster Central Blog”]
There are some penalties that are related to the idea of having the same
content as another site—for example, if you’re scraping content from
other sites and republishing it, or if you republish content without
adding any additional value. These tactics are clearly outlined (and
discouraged) in our Webmaster Guidelines[/quote]
Google does not like plagiarism.
I’m not sure, but perhaps there are different considerations for news sites, as News is a search category of its own. But I think it just favours the original creators. Eg, Wiki has loads of copy-cat scrapers, but ranks really well on many subjects.