[IMC-US] Google News

[Chris Anderson]

One of the things we should emphasze is that they are
currently syndicating nyc imc, a us based website with
a news policy that is identical, more or less, with
every other us based website. in other words, if nyc,
why not everyone. this was one of the reasons i was
happiest about gn taking the feed.

i cant honestly say why we were able to break through
the google news wall. it does prove, i think, that
gn's policy is somewhat ad hoc and arbitrary. one
other thing to emphasize is that once we finally got
through, they have been fairly solicitous-- i emailed
them a heads up that we were changing our site around
to mir and our sydication might change soon and they
got back to me within a day.

strange.

c

--- john duda <john at manifestor.org> wrote:

> 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
> > > >>>
> 
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