[WikiEN-l] Google thinks Wikipedia is a news source

[Steve Summit]

Carcharoth wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The BBC News website does too. I'm not a great fan of that approach,
>> it makes it hard to find out what the new information is (they don't
>> have "(diff)" links like Wikipedia, so you have to play a game of
>> spot-the-difference manually).
>
> That is annoying.

Very annoying.

> Especially if you link to or quote from a news
> article and find it has been updated later.

They need to learn about permalinks.

> And don't get me started on webpages or "news" stories that fail to
> give *any* date of publication at all.

Arrgh.