Google News Played by Foreign Sources?

March 1, 2007

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Google News Played by Foreign Sources

Take a look at Google News U.S. and how many obscure foreign news sources are linked to. Of course nothing is wrong with this until you realize that the stories these sources are writing about are U.S. based. Looking deeper it's obvious that some of the news sites appear to be only writing about these stories in order to get traffic from Google News U.S..

Google News Played by Foreign Sources?

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Aren't there any news sites on the scene of these stories. For instance, TMZ.com should be the top link covering the latest Paris Hilton or Britney Spears story ... not Aljazeera, Xinhua, or Playfuls.<br />
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Don't forget this is Google ... people assume the top links on story groups to be the most relevant link to an article. <br />
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I know Google wants to appeal to a worldwide user base but constantly linking to obscure foreign sites rewriting U.S. based stories in order to promote their Google Adwords is probably not a great idea.<br />
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