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Optimizing News Sites For Google News

Posted by michael on from the GIGO dept.

malibucreek writes "More trouble for Google News? Yesterday, it was Google News censoring stories for China. Today, the Online Journalism Review details a potential conservative bias in the site's algorithm for news search results. The story also includes some details about how Google ranks stories on its news page. Turns out that on Google News, backlinks do *not* improve search positioning."

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  1. Re:Crosshairs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Pre-IPO, the directors were free to act as they saw fit.

    Post-IPO, if they pass up opportunities to make money, they could be subject to a lawsuit from shareholders.

    It seems to me that the reaction to the IPO is simply a case of people trusting the Google directors, but not the Google shareholders.

  2. Re:The bias is in american culture by geoffspear · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Mandatory prayer in schools ranks up there with banning all abortion and getting rid of all the gays in the right-wing domestic agenda. The RNC, just this week, claimed that "liberals" want to ban the Bible.

    BTW, a baccalaureate ceremony is not graduation. It is a separate religious ceremony; ours was held the day before graduation.

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