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Submission + - How Google Filters News (google.com)

Submitted by

Schlacht

on Monday January 23, 2012 @02:48PM

Schlacht writes: "I've been reading /. for a long time, but have never written a submission. The /. community is one of the sharpest online (at least from my observations). My question to you all is, "How does Google parse its global headline seeking scripts to create the headlines of news.google.com?"
My morning reading is a scan of google news headlines and sometimes /. This is daily, excluding weekends. Now, I have been following the GOP primary elections since last June and I have an observation: Ron Paul has not been in the headlines of the Top Stories, US News, or any other default filter Google has. I understand Google is big as god and has its fingers in more places than I care to imagine ... but really, could they also be "Filtering" the Ron Paul candidacy like the rest of the main stream media? Thanks in advance for any intelligent input that I might be overlooking here!"

Comment Re:No? (Score 2) 428

by fenskinator on Saturday January 21, 2012 @04:18PM (#38776013) Attached to: Megaupload Shutdown: Should RapidShare and Dropbox Worry?

I agree with you on most of your points, but copyright itself isn't the problem. It's the insistence that someone needs to be paid well beyond their lifetime for a work they created that's the problem with copyright.

Comment Re:No? (Score 1) 428

by fenskinator on Saturday January 21, 2012 @04:10PM (#38775945) Attached to: Megaupload Shutdown: Should RapidShare and Dropbox Worry?

Good thing no one patented the tin foil hat, you might need one.

Comment Re:Doubt it (Score 1) 428

by fenskinator on Saturday January 21, 2012 @04:09PM (#38775931) Attached to: Megaupload Shutdown: Should RapidShare and Dropbox Worry?

If Megaupload did the same it would still be up.

Based on what we've all been reading, I'm fairly sure they were never going to be diligent like any responsible website.

Comment Re:No? (Score 2) 428

by fenskinator on Saturday January 21, 2012 @04:03PM (#38775895) Attached to: Megaupload Shutdown: Should RapidShare and Dropbox Worry?

Then again, when did it matter whether or not a company was doing something illegal for the government to claim a company did and step in?

Comment No? (Score 2) 428

by fenskinator on Saturday January 21, 2012 @03:55PM (#38775825) Attached to: Megaupload Shutdown: Should RapidShare and Dropbox Worry?

Not unless the company is conspiring to have copyrighted material on its website.

Comment I thought... (Score 1) 649

by fenskinator on Thursday January 19, 2012 @07:04PM (#38754956) Attached to: Anonymous Takes Down DOJ, RIAA, MPA and Universal Music

...everyone was pissed about all the inaction.

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