The Google Gang
p2pnet news | Freedom:- “Today we’re launching a new feature on Google News that will help you quickly and easily find original stories from news publishers – including stories from some of the top news agencies in the world, such as the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, UK Press Association and the Canadian Press – and go directly to the original source to read more,” trumpeted Google last month.
Every day, I get up in the morning and start culling the Net in search of stories. The idea is to quickly read through various posts – a lot of posts – on a given topic and try and put them together into a news item and I usually start off with Yahoo and Google for lamescream headlines.
But lately, I’ve noticed when I do a Google search I come up with the same four names.
Can you guess which ones they are?
Last month, “A new online horror is being born,” I wrote, going on, “instead of being able to choose from posts which, although they may carry agency copy, might also have different interpretations and slants of the events being discussed, readers will only have access to materials presented by the agencies Google is in bed with.”
Now, increasingly, you see this in the url - http://ap.google.com/article/xxxxx, and you can substitute AFP, PA, CP.
Just thought I’d mention it.
Cheers!
Jon Newton – p2pnet
Also See:
trumpeted Google – GNS: Google News Service, September 3, 2007
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October 30th, 2007 at 6:49 am
that is both disappointing and annoying.
come on google! dont turn into another microsoft!
October 30th, 2007 at 10:28 am
If google lose it’s diversity of content them it will become a useless search engine.
Fortunatly Yahoo seem to become a really good replacment. If even Yahoo go the same route that will be an opportunity to start a new search engine to replace the mess-up one.