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I understand what you're saying, but doesn't Google News do the exact same thing? Google News provides snippets of content, and helps people discover the news
by iamelgringo 16y ago
I understand what you're saying, but doesn't Google News do the exact same thing?
Google News provides snippets of content, and helps people discover the news providing direct links to the original source of news. For Google to deindex a site like celebrifi and while running a competing product (Google News) smells a bit of monopolistic behavior. It's suspect it's unintentional, but Google is going to have to walk a very very fine line as you start deindexing certain sites.
- nostrademons 16y agoWhen News results show up on the search result page, they link directly to the story, they don't link to the Google News landing page or category where you'd then have to click on a link. Google News itself falls into the second category - an aggregator that stands on its own, as a destination. Much like Hacker News. I personally don't use it, but the people that do go because they find it lets them discover a bunch of content that they otherwise wouldn't know about.
- iamelgringo 16y agoI know that you're saying that Google News is a dedicated site, and separate from the search results. But, Google links to it's own aggregation service from its results on a regular basis, and at the very top of most every results page in Google there is a link to Google News version of the search. Google News does stand alone as an aggregator, but you have to admit that it is promoted heavily by Google search. If GOOG keeps doing stuff like that, I suspect there are going to be a lot more companies that start to take umbrage, and start challenging this behavior in court claiming that it's anti-competitive behavior.