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

Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia at gmail.com
Sun Jun 14 19:33:53 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Sage Ross<ragesoss+wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Inclusion of Wikipedia articles in Google News appears to be based on
> a) having been created recently, and b) having as its title a term
> that is part of the core topic of a collection of articles that Google
> News determines to be related.
>

Strike that.  Creation date doesn't seem to figure in.  [[Murder of
Meredith Kercher]] was created quite a while ago, but is linked from
Google News results about the recent related developments.

-Sage



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