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Google acknowledged that headlines from government-banned Web sites were intentionally excluded from Google News because they are inaccessible within China's borders. The company said that providing links to inaccessible Web sites would degrade the ``search experience'' of its news site.
Google spokesman Gabriel Stricker declined to say how many employees are working on the project or how many responses from news subjects the company has received so far. Google announced the feature Tuesday in a blog posting.
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CNS News: The world's best known Internet search engine, Google.com, stands accused of liberal political bias after allegedly refusing a conservative group's ad, which had text nearly identical to an advertisement the company previously accepted from a liberal group. Google denied the charge Tuesday and said it treats all of its users and customers fairly.
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The CIC report had some good news for Google. The company's efforts to strengthen its Chinese search capabilities are recognized by users, with 58.5 percent of respondents in a survey saying they'd noticed changes to the search engine. Of those respondents, 65.3 percent said Google's Chinese search engine had improved.
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His news portal quickly became an in-house favorite at Google. The search company started a headline service later that year and posted the first beta of Google News in spring of 2002. The beta now in use launched September,2002.
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One year later, Kariger added Google site targeting to the company's advertising strategy with the aim of attracting new advertisers while continuing to increase revenue. The result: both a rise in revenue, as well as an impressive increase in RPM of 67 percent.
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