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Google News is interesting on several levels, including that it's entirely automated. There are no Google editors, only computer algorithms selecting what are the top stories of the day and the best coverage of those stories -- and providing links to that content.
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Google News added a new feature last week that lets participants in news stories leave comments below the stories in the search results. The feature is an expirement in the U.S., designed for people or companies who are mentioned in news stories and felt they did not receive a fair shake. If you want to comment on a story that mentions you, email news-comments@google.com and “your comment, a link to the story, your contact details, and information how your contact information can be verified”.
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After over three years, Google News is finally leaving its beta status behind and becoming a fully launched product. The site, which aggregates news stories from across the globe automatically, is available in 22 regional editions and 10 languages. With the graduation from beta, Google has added a feature that recommends stories based on previously read subjects.
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If Google News does catch on, it could change news reading habits for Internet users. Instead of the traditional way of choosing a media outlet and navigating its content, Google News users enter specific stories via a third party (Google) and bypass news organizations' home pages. While that's hardly new, what is new is the existence of a Web entity powerful enough to draw substantial numbers of users away from news sites' home pages.
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The Google News crawler can’t handle links in titles. Run your titles in h tags and include a permalink on the page that the Google News bot can use. Otherwise, you simply get your news source title on all news stories – no good for keyword searches.
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LGF, on the other hand, shouldn't feel any jealousy at not being a news sort for Google News, because it's a blog. They post links to other stories. It's not called news if it's short and has a link to the story, it's called a post. That'd be like Google News putting up Metafilter stuff.
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