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Ask HN: how does Google News selects its sources
After the agreement in France between Google and the press (HN thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5152443), few observed that Google News only index a subset of the available news sources.
Typically (and sorry for the French-only example), the news source http://reflets.info/ often breaks the national news, though none of its articles do appear on Google news.
However, these articles do appears among the organic search results.
Anyone has clues on how the selection is made by any chances ?
- aiurtourist 14y agoThey have special deals with some sources, such as Associated Press. For example, search Google News for "site:google.com" and you'll see addresses like "http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/... http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...
- genwin 14y agoI suspect it's a human or two, manually selecting RSS or Atom feeds, and sifting out any complainers or problem feeds.