It appears that Google is on the verge of changing it’s search engine capabilities to weigh a news organization’s credibility to garner a higher search ranking.
The new search engine would rate news organisations according to the authority of their reports, New Scientist reports today. At present, the Google news search engine ranks entries by the number of times that a report refers to the search term typed-in or places the most recent items first. Articles from large news organisations with considerable authority, such as the BBC, are not given any more weight that less reliably sourced items.
I’m not sure how they could do this, but expect CBS to be on page 30 from here on out.
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On the contrary. I expect googleftists to list all of the synoptic media first and honest reporting more than 30 pages back. Their record simply on what they regard as a news agency is against them.
Comment by oino sakai — Thursday, April 28, 2005 @ 6:25 pm CDT