Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
Matt Brown wrote:
On 7/9/06, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
I'm startled that Google News finds "Israel News Service" worthy of inclusion among its sources.
I'm not so sure Google News has much of a bar to inclusion.
Their bar to inclusion is that they've spidered it.
It's slightly higher than that: they don't usually accept single-person news sources (read: blogs), and there are apparently some odd technical requirements as well. But yes, the bar is rather low. It seems the fact that some of the INA stories have bylines other than Leyden's is enough to qualify it as "not a blog" as far as Google News is concerned.