Optimizing News Sites For Google News 422
malibucreek writes "More trouble for Google News? Yesterday, it was Google News censoring stories for China. Today, the Online Journalism Review details a potential conservative bias in the site's algorithm for news search results. The story also includes some details about how Google ranks stories on its news page. Turns out that on Google News, backlinks do *not* improve search positioning."
So there really was something to see here! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's google's job to give balanced news (Score:5, Funny)
Regards,
Dan Rather
Here come the naysayers! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It's google's job to give balanced news (Score:5, Funny)
google? (Score:2, Funny)
Thank God (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It is not Googles responsibility (Score:5, Funny)
My iPod has a liberal bias (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Google News Republican Bias? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's google's job to give balanced news (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The bias is in american culture (Score:1, Funny)
Re:News Flash: There is no unbiased news (Score:5, Funny)
1. What you do with your body is our business.
2. Telling other countries what to do is our business.
3. What you think is our business.
4. Giving your tax dollars to the wealthy is our business.
5. What you say is our business.
6. Your religious beliefs are our business.
7. Ensuring big business pays its fair share is none of our business.
Clear that up for you?
Re:In other news... (Score:3, Funny)
So let's get right to the point, rightaway. So, right now, Google has the right to lean towards the right, eventhough it may not be right because they don't write news. But can you lean if you're only write about harmless entertainment like Edgar Wright [google.com]? There doesn't seem to be a slant to the right if you're going to write about Rite-Aid [google.com]. I mean, if I was going to be investing into a REIT I don't want any slants [google.com]. Since Google went public, I can assume all this bashing is a rite of passage. All in all, Google News seems alright to me.
(Sorry, I have no puns *ahem* left.)
Re:It's google's job to give balanced news (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's google's job to give balanced news (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hatesites? (Score:4, Funny)
I can tell you don't read it, or rather, don't read it in context of the rest of the national press here. You're woefully misinformed: the Mail is somewhat to the Right of centre.
Here's an approximate right-to-left split of the national press (Sunday papers omitted for simplicity):
Alternatively, there's the traditional definition set of the national press [hps.com] quoted for the benefit of novices such as yourself, which is still sufficiently accurate to be a useful rule of thumb: