No, Google News affiliates are all hand-picked by Google.
Although the other problem with their "bar" is that they have a large number of middle eastern and liberal employees who seem to think that Hezbollah's "news agency" and other racist "news" sources ought to be let in, while politically conservative news sources constantly get dropped.
A. Nony Mouse
On 7/12/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com 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.
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