Google News Alert

Dated March 2003

[xcandyman]

Hi

I have just got a google news alert titled:

GOOGLE triggers privacy concerns
ZDNet.co.uk, UK

Upon viewing the article is dated March 2003! Has anyone else recieved old articles from google news alert but google stating them as new?

Thanks

[Brett_Tabke]

Ya, the feed providers screw up and feed in an old one every once-in-awhile.

[xcandyman]

Thanks Brett, thought I was going back in time for a second then lol ;-)

[netguy]

Overall, I have been pleased with the timeliness of the Google News alerts, but last week I did receive two that were about a month old.

As Brett stated, it's probably more a problem with the feed providers than G.

[jasonc]

Do most feed providers give feed Google plain text? I have a site that feeds Google News, and they just crawl the homepage. (Even though we have extensive XML-based feeds publically available).

If they do the same on, say, ZDNet - then its Google's fault they picked up an old story that probably happened to be on a index page. Right?

[ct2000]

yeah my site is on Google news and they just pick up new links from my homepage to new news stories as and when they show up - so prob an old link showed up on there home page