Suggestion for Google News?

Just noticed this page

[Clark]

Since this forum is called Google News, here's a piece of news (at least to me):

Just saw that [news.google.com...] offers a list of news sources. I think they missed an awful lot of them. And I don't get the relevance of the links in the right column?

Looks like a hastily put together page and not well thought out. But they do ask for suggestions so if you have any, let them know...

[nutsandbolts]

As far as I remember, it was put up rather quickly on September 11th 2001 as Google had no news page back then but did a special on the tragic event as it unfolded.

[chiyo]

I always thought it would be better to have links to all the 1,500 news sources used by news.google instead. It does seem to be a fairly "neither here nor there" type of page!

[takagi]

But they do ask for suggestions so if you have any, let them know...

According to the picture at the section 'Languages Used to Access Google' at the Zeitgeist [google.com] page the number of non-English visitors grew from 33% to 50% in the last 2 years. The page at the 'news' subdomain mentioned in msg 1 shows a lot of non-English newspapers. But 'Google News (Beta)' only has English news. Why?

[philipp]

I think it's 4,500 news sources by now. See Webby Awards "acceptance speech" [ [google.com...] ].
Maybe they would do good including some more tech forums, like this one, or some multi-user blogs (it is their policy at the moment not to include any "single-person" webpages).

[lorenbaker]

I love Google News.

It's an excellent way to sift through various sources of the same news story.

WebAdvantage's news is included on Google News and it brings some decent referrals to our eMarketing articles.

Articles seem to be optimized when searching for relevant stories, as opposed to searching current ones.

Our SurveyMonkey interview is still listed under relevancy (#5):

It amazes me that everyone is so Google crazy but y'all have just heard about the news part of Google.

In my opinion, optimizing for Google would is doing so over the whole spectrum- News, Search, Groups... etc.

How do you feel about this?

Loren
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[edited by: WebGuerrilla at 7:47 pm (utc) on June 16, 2003]
[edit reason] No urls, thanks. See TOS [webmasterworld.com] [/edit]

[Clark]

Welcome to WW Loren.

Have you clicked on the url in the first post? That's a static links page that google shows. I wasn't talking about the news.google.com itself.

Congratulations on being in their news feed. That's a nice accomplishment.