In Google's recent battle towards becoming an international news center, I've
come to notice that the results delivered from Google News seems like nothing
more than the articles we publish everyday. So I ask, doesn't it seem like
Google News resembles an article directory of some sorts?
- Google News World: http://news.google.com
- Google News Canada: http://news.google.ca
- Google News UK: http://news.google.co.uk
I only mention this because when submitting my internet marketing articles, I often wonder if they show up within Google News? 9 times out of 10, they do! In fact, they usually show up within 48 hours of being indexed from other top related websites.
How does Google News select it's content?
Right now, it seems that "news centers" & "press release companies" related
to your field online are profiting from these search results. When you think
about it, wouldn't a press release be a form of news anyways? Possibly...
If you take a good look at the websites who deliver the content within Google
news, you will notice that only a select few are providing all of the results.
Again, it's possible that Google's news algorithm is still in its infant stages
and probably has a lot of uphill battles to conquer.
It may be in Google's best interest to assemble a team of experts in different
fields to accept articles/news submissions in order to keep the news source
within the Google kingdom.
There is Only A Fraction of Results Showing:
While searching through the GN section, you will also notice a relatively small
portion of actual search results coming up. Only a fraction of a percentage
of results get listed within the GN search results compared to the same results
within the regular search results found on Google's main page.
Only the sections on the left deliver actual real-time news. These are: Top
Stories | World | Business | Sci/Tech | Sports | Entertainment | Health. These
links provide real-time results delivered from credible news sources online.
Google News Alerts - Ezine anyone?
When you think about it, you are giving Google your email address to get related
articles to the search term delivered to your inbox, how does this differ from
any other regular newsletter? Are we going to start seeing Google Adwords within
the news alerts? Will they consider giving large corporations the opportunity
to advertise within their email alerts as a one time mailing! I hope not.
More and more we are seeing less of the Google we once knew and have come to
love (A search bar with some great results). Since Google's IPO, the development
team at GG are starting to launch applications online that are starting to
resemble what we now know as the great Yahoo Portal.
Will there be any difference? Probably not.
One Great Point About Google News:
They have given you the ability to customize your page to show whatever news
topics you want. Simply look at the right side for a button that says "Customize
this page New!". Once you click on this link a drop down box shows you all
the main topics you have listed within your page. Simply click on the topic
you wish to customize or remove. The best part of it all is that you can click
on "Add a custom section" and simply search for the topic you wish to have
listed on your page.
All in all you can create an entire custom news page (author articles) that
relate to your industry.
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