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Google News from a Better World

BuddhaInABucket — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:13:16 -0800

ConservativeAlgorithm

srboisvert — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 04:17:06 -0800

Google News Bias. How second tier websites are gaming the Google News Enging.

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sudama — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 19:59:48 -0800

Not to touch on politics, but I found this particularly striking example of how Google News can reveal a dimension of 'news' that can be difficult to observe.

Google Newsalerts

kablam — Wed, 06 Aug 2003 20:05:57 -0800

Have Google keep you up to date with a news item. But judging from the vast assortment of news and comment out there, can even Google keep up?

Fair and Balanced

CrazyJub — Fri, 06 Jun 2003 13:49:54 -0800

BBC "Fresh doubts over Iraq's arsenal". CNN "Pentagon: WMD report consistent with U.S. case" Google News lists many other sources on this topic, with varying titles depending on who you read.

Google News reportedly has removed IndyMedia.org due to pressure

Babylonian — Mon, 19 May 2003 18:58:48 -0800

Google News has reportedly confirmed they have removed Indymedia from their list of news sources. Why you ask? Apparently Google bowed to pressure brought upon them by an email campaign organized by people who disagree with some of what gets posted under IndyMedia's policy of allowing anyone to post to the newswire, and not exerting editorial control. People are claiming IndyMedia is "anti-semitic", because of trolls who sometimes post hateful posts on the unedited, user-supplied newswire. Check out the thread on Little Green Footballs or Silent Running or this one at Yourish.com. Inexplicably, Yourish points to this mailing list posting as proof of IndyMedia's "anti-semitism". If you go to Google news and search for indymedia sorted by date, nothing after May 16th comes up. Now in their effort to remove truly anti-semitic material from Google News, they've removed all the legitimate stories of IndyMedia from Google News as well.

mathowie — Mon, 23 Sep 2002 07:27:07 -0800

Google's News has launched as a new tab on their other search interfaces with a heavy redesign, though it still carries a "beta" label. The front page changes every few minutes based on some hidden popularity algorithm, as do the sub-pages. Featuring a stark ad-free design that looks quite a bit more attractive than CNN.com or any other major news site, perhaps robot-collected news is the wave of the future.

darukaru — Fri, 15 Mar 2002 21:59:24 -0800

Google continues march towards world domination with Google News. "Google's News Search (BETA) service presents information culled from many of the world's news sources collected over the previous week. With continuous updates throughout the day, you'll keep up to date with what's happening now and learn about the stories that led to the most recent developments." Now there's no excuse for posting a CNN link.