In Google's recent battle towards becoming an international news
center, I've come to notice that the results delivered from Google News
seems like nothing more than the articles we publish everyday. So I
ask, doesn't it seem like Google News resembles an article directory of
some sorts?
* Google News World: http://news.google.com
* Google News Canada: http://news.google.ca
* Google News UK: http://news.google.co.uk
I only mention this because when submitting my internet marketing
articles, I often wonder if they show up within Google News? 9 times
out of 10, they do! In fact, they usually show up within 48 hours of
being indexed from other top related websites.
How does Google News select it's content?
Right now, it seems that "news centers" & "press release companies"
related to your field online are profiting from these search results.
When you think about it, wouldn't a press release be a form of news
anyways? Possibly...
If you take a good look at the websites who deliver the content within
Google news, you will notice that only a select few are providing all
of the results. Again, it's possible that Google's news algorithm is
still in its infant stages and probably has a lot of uphill battles to
conquer.
It may be in Google's best interest to assemble a team of experts in
different fields to accept articles/news submissions in order to keep
the news source within the Google kingdom.
There is Only A Fraction of Results Showing:
While searching through the GN section, you will also notice a
relatively small portion of actual search results coming up. Only a
fraction of a percentage of results get listed within the GN search
results compared to the same results within the regular search results
found on Google's main page.
Only the sections on the left deliver actual real-time news. These are:
Top Stories | World | Business | Sci/Tech | Sports | Entertainment |
Health. These links provide real-time results delivered from credible
news sources online.
Google News Alerts - Ezine anyone?
When you think about it, you are giving Google your email address to
get related articles to the search term delivered to your inbox, how
does this differ from any other regular newsletter? Are we going to
start seeing Google Adwords within the news alerts? Will they consider
giving large corporations the opportunity to advertise within their
email alerts as a one time mailing! I hope not.
More and more we are seeing less of the Google we once knew and have
come to love (A search bar with some great results). Since Google's
IPO, the development team at GG are starting to launch applications
online that are starting to resemble what we now know as the great
Yahoo Portal.
Will there be any difference? Probably not.
One Great Point About Google News:
They have given you the ability to customize your page to show whatever
news topics you want. Simply look at the right side for a button that
says "Customize this page New!". Once you click on this link a drop
down box shows you all the main topics you have listed within your
page. Simply click on the topic you wish to customize or remove. The
best part of it all is that you can click on "Add a custom section" and
simply search for the topic you wish to have listed on your page.
All in all you can create an entire custom news page (author articles) that relate to your industry.
