[IMC-US] Google News

[john duda]

i'm working on a single rss feed containing both syndicated local
feature and national feature us indymedia articles (or i was when my
connection to the server went away mysteriously)

it will <link> to the original site where the article appeared, so we
can give google 1 file, and then they can crawl all the original
version.

alternately, if they don't want to crawl pages with user comments on
them, i can give them an rss feed which links to the original
location, but which includes as much content in the feed as we get
from the local feeds.

i could also do this on global indymedia which pulls all the feeds
from around the world, but i've been a lot laxer on the outreach end
of getting local full content feeds....

as far as i have heard about the google news policy, the major issue
was with making sure all pages crawled for google news passed some
sort of editorial process(fair enough).  if we make this feed work, we
can hand google every suitable editorial processed article from around
the network on a silver platter(subject to the limitations of the
local feeds, of course).

seems like if we need to bug google news, we should do it once and make it
count...

does this sound reasonable?

john









On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 09:18:22AM -0700, evan wrote:
> I'm working for a company which contracts with google to provide
> services for blogger. I see folks from google a few times a week,
> nobody from the google news team, directly, but plenty of folks inside
> google. If we had a plan for going to google, and saying, index this,
> this is what we want you to do with indymedia, i could arrange the
> meetings and move that forward.
> 
> I've noticed that google news in english indexes much less of
> indymedia than the other languages.
> 
> -evan
> 
> On 4/15/05, bradley at riseup.net <bradley at riseup.net> wrote:
> > wow, that is great.
> > 
> > my friend just told me that when he typed "UC Protest" in google, the
> > second thing to come up was Indymedia.us
> > 
> > We thought that was cool and I said how we would 'be in the dark'
> > without google...
> > 
> > So congrats nyc-imc on bugging google enough to get a features syndication!!
> > 
> > ~Bradley
> > 
> > * * * * *
> > 
> > Chris Anderson wrote:
> > 
> > >Heads up:
> > >
> > >Google News is now syndicating NYC IMC features.
> > >http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=nyc+independent+media+center&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d
> > >
> > >How did we do it? Difficult to say. We just harassed
> > >Google News for a few months until they finally
> > >agreed. Originally, they were syndicating all posts to
> > >the wire but we asked them just to syndicate the
> > >feature stories.
> > >
> > >Good news folks.
> > >
> > >chris
> > >
> > >--- bht <bht at indymedia.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>apparently also for this day, portland imc web radio
> > >>will de doing live
> > >>coverage int he studio and be taking calls.
> > >>
> > >>i dont know what time we should start, so let me
> > >>know and spread the
> > >>number:  1-800-939-7973
> > >>bht
> > >>
> > >>asad a. wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>>1) Will there be a local solidarity action which
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>your local IMC will
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>>   be covering?
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>Yes, A16 Dallas: Spank The Bank!:
> > >>>http://ntimc.org/newswire.php?story_id=2201
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>>2) Is your local IMC planning any special
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>coverage of the IMF-WB
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>>   protests?
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>Not that I know of, we just will be having to
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>check the newswires of
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>north  texas indymedia, austin indymedia, and
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>houston indymedia.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>Free Radio Dallas will be streaming Portland
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>IndyMedia Web Radio, and
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>we are giving out the number for people to call in
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>and give their
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>accounts, so it would be good to have people
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>listening to that stream
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>to put braking news on us indy.
> > >>>There will also be autonomous direct action taking
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>place in the days
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>leading up to the event, but I will take care of
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>coverege for that.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>Any other cities?
> > >>>love and rage,
> > >>>asad
> > >>>.........
> > >>>--l-i-s-t-e-n--
> > >>>http://www.freeradiodallas.net
> > >>>Radio Indymedia w/ Asad
> > >>>Thursdays, 7pm-8pm
> > >>>
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