Google's never ending search for providing a quality end user experience has culminated into a bullet with patent number WO 2005/029368 imprinted across the side. Unfortunately for smaller news services, the bullet may strike the heart of aspiring upstarts-a casualty of Google's friendly fire.
Editor's Note: How will Google's new News patent affect the smaller news sites? Will it keep them out of Google News completely? If so, what other sources do these authors have that will display their work? Discuss at will bring up two sources at the top that probably lack many of the things the new algorithm will be looking for. At the top of the page is a satire site called "Unconfirmed Sources" and an editorial from "Guerrilla News Network." So these aren't really news sources, they're entertainment and editorial sources. "googlization" are becoming widespread as Europe mobilizes against the search engine by setting up their own literature database in fear of American cultural imperialism. This is not to say that Europe isn't paranoid with misplaced anxiety. In all honesty, Google should be praised for their digitization and qualitative efforts and for setting the benchmark by which other search engines are measured. And Europe should have had their digitization effort going in spite of, rather than in response to Google's efforts. All information indexing should be welcomed on the web. There will always be critics.Critics are the warts that come with power and fame. But its hard to not be at least a little bit worried about the underdogs, the upshoots, the legitimate news sources without thousands on staff, who haven't been around for decades and have themselves comfortably imbedded into the establishment. You have to pine just a little bit for the voices that could be potentially lost in the fight for search engine credibility.
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