Articles in the Google News Category
Google News, Search Engine Bias, Values in Design »
Following up on earlier concerns, Jeff Jarvis reports that GoogleNews is including news articles from the far-right British National Party.
While I have previsouly disagreed with Jeff that certain “news” is inherently more valid than other “news” for inclusion in news aggregation services like GoogleNews, I do agree with him that Google needs to be more transparent about how sites are selected and ranked within the GoogleNews service.
Google, Google News, Search Engine Bias »
Google registered a trademark for the word “TrustRank,” as Search Engine Watch and Google Blogoscoped discuss. I agree with the speculation that TrustRank sounds like a more social variant of the link-based PageRank algorithm Google relies on for search results. TrustRank might also be related to a Stanford paper published March of last year: “Combating Web Spam with TrustRank,” which proposes techniques to semi-automatically separate good pages from spam by the use of a small selection of reputable seed pages.
Slashdot now points an article on NewScientist which explains how Google …
