p2pnet - rss feed: On Google, old news is new news
p2pnet news view P2P:- Back in July, “When I start work in the morning, usually at around 3:30 am Pacific, I kill hand-submitted spam — not a lot these days, I’m glad to say — and start checking various sites looking for potential news items,” I posted, going on:
“The first dozen or so I visit include, in no particular order and not exclusively, MONITOR Today! an Ottawa tech portal, TorrentFreak, the Dutch .torrent news site, Ray Beckerman’s Recording Industry vs The People, the huge RIAA document archive and short posts on Big 4 misdeeds, Michael Geist, the Ottawa law professor who’s become an unofficial Net spokesman, and so on.
“I also go to Googlenews.ca. But I’m starting to wonder why I bother.”
I was wondering because although Google News purports to be a news site, some of the content is really old.
The pic on the right is a lift from today’s top-of-the-page stories in the prime position in the upper right corner.
But this is the third day Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Renolds tie the knot in secret BC location has been in that position.
In fact, it was originally published by the Vancouver Sun on September 29, and it was the story I quoted when I did a p2pnet post on Scarlett and Ryan’s nuptials on Monday.
Like come ON, Google.
News is supposed to be new news, not ancient history!
Does anyone know in detail exactly how Google culls the Net for the stories which end up on its news sections — apart from the companies in the Duplicate Detection plan, that is?
“I’m in Canada but I bet the same thing happens on all of the other (more than 40) localised main ‘news’ sites,” I said in my first story, adding:
“Is it time for Google to stop calling these pages news pages, or at least post something somewhere telling visitors how often they can expect stories to be updated?
“Or not, as the case seems to be?”
Same same. 
Cheers!
Jon Newton - p2pnet
Los Angeles Times - , September , 2008
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October 1st, 2008 at 1:18 pm
It was updated about 1/2 hour after this post
Cheers
October 1st, 2008 at 2:28 pm
While there is your answer, google bot sniffs webpages and looks for people to ask it to update
October 1st, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Jon:
Why waste time with Google news?
Wikinews is really quickly updated, and — as with a lot of wiki-type efforts — has a really high reliability rate barring vandalism etc. AND far less “spin” than most other news outlets.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:17 pm
^^ Don’t worry, Henry. I use that too.
Cheers!
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:57 am
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