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"As with Google's web ranking, relevance is determined by information retrieval techniques that look at the distribution of words in the article and surrounding pages on the web. If the article matches the query well it is deemed relevant and gets a high score. Other factors include the importance of the source, timeliness of the article, and importance of the news story, relative to other stories in the news currently."
This in short reveals alot if looked at in deep.
Aravind
Krishna is one of the Top technical resources in the plex...He is also the guy behind Google's recent patent about local pagerank .
Here is a collection of all his research publications ...
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msg 13 by Vitaplease.
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Take it with a pinch of salt. HTH :)
Google news' algo was also briefly discussed in the supporters forum: ;)
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As with Google's web ranking, relevance is determined by information retrieval techniques that look at the distribution of words in the article and surrounding pages on the web
So now it gets down to defining surrounding pages on the web..
Googleguy is pally (more or less) with Brett, Brett introduces us to Krishna now, Googleguy has mentioned cricket a few more times than he has mentioned other games, same goes for India, Krishna is Indian!
How's my reasoning?
Gogleguy, if I am right you can stickymail me, I wont tell anyone you did!
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Or was he spoofing us to put us off the scent!?