[IMC-US] Google News

Tue Apr 19 10:54:28 CDT 2005

Google News does not use RSS (surprisingly). They just crawl the site  
and have a program which figures out what is a news story and what  
isn't. For example, if you post a press release with lots of phone  
numbers and contact info, Google News will not pick it up as a news  
story.

Ryan Kaldari, Tennessee IMC

On Apr 15, 2005, at 11:04 PM, john duda 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
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> 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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