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    Transparency in GoogleNews

    Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

    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 [...]

    Google TrustRank

    Friday, April 29th, 2005

    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 [...]