Mapping Google News

CousinLarry writes "A neat project called Buzztracker.org has been mining Google News for over a year and keeping track of relationships between geographic locations mentioned in articles. The results are some really cool maps that actually seem to reflect the "buzz" of the day - check out the Vatican clusters from earlier this month, or the global New Year's chatter. You can also dig down into the articles from which the maps were generated."

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FINEST POSTERIOR

[Anonymous Coward]

Belongeth to me.

Here's the Map for Slashdot Mentioned Sites

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's what it's like to be other sites that have been mentioned on Slashdot. Notice the pattern here? :)

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Read news?

[DragonHawk]

This is technically off-topic, I suppose, but I can't think of any other place to post this, and it's kinda related. Moderators can make the final decision, I suppose.

Anyway: I stumbled across a weird Google behavior the other day. If you do a regular Google for "read news" you get some weird results at the top of the results page:

Read on
News: 4
According to http://www.esp-software.com/index.php?option=conte nt&task=view&id=3&Itemid=1 - More sources »

Try it: http://www.google.com/search?q=read+news

Anyone have any idea what that is? New feature still in development? Old feature never finished? Documented feature I'm being stupid about? Ordinary bug?

Inquiring minds want to know. Well, not really, but Slashdot readers might. Well, me, anyway.