Sunday, May 01, 2005
Search Engine to Give Preference to CNN, BBC, AP
Source: WorldNetDaily The dominant search engine on the Internet is getting ready to begin ranking news searches by "quality rather than simply by their date and relevance to search times," giving preference to big news agencies such as CNN, BBC and AP.
Currently, Google's news search engine responds to requests for news by keyword with thousands of "hits" leading to news websites. They are now ranked either by most recent or most focused.
"This means that articles carrying more authority, say from CNN or the BBC, can be ousted from the first page of results, simply because they are not as recent or as relevant to the keyword entered in the search line," reports the New Scientist. "Now, Google, whose name has become synonymous with internet searching, plans to build a database that will compare the track record and credibility of all news sources around the world, and adjust the ranking of any search results accordingly." MORE
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