   how does google news work?
  hi guys.anybody have any idea how google news does it? how do they get the headlines/articles from more than 4500 sites that accurate? any idea? links/references would also do.http://news.google.comthanks for sharing your knowledge![edited by - mickey on February 11, 2004 11:55:51 AM]
  It''s the magic of Google . ;  By using  pigeons, of course. ;  I would guess that they send a bot out multiple times a day, pull the data in and then run it through a program, which will harvest the needed data. Either that or it pulls an RSS feed from each site..   News Flash! Typhoon Rips through Cemetery; Hundreds DeadPointlessness;quote:Original post by SiCrane  By using  pigeons, of course.   that must be a joke! ;  It''s no joke, it''s the true technology behind google. ;Some infoIt only says this thoughquote:How does Google decide what stories are published on the Google News homepage?The headlines on the Google News homepage are selected entirely by a computer algorithm, based on many factors including how often and on what sites a story appears elsewhere on the web. This is very much in the tradition of Google''s web search, which relies heavily on the collective judgment of web publishers to determine which sites offer the most valuable and relevant information. Google News relies in a similar fashion on the editorial judgment of online news organizations to determine which stories are most deserving of inclusion and prominence on the Google News page. Which of course doesn''t say clearly if the complete index is generated with a generic algorithm or not. But as they have quite few sites that are indexed, I think that they have specialized algorithms for each of them, instead of one generic one. Well some algorithms an of course be used for several sites, but it would still be a human that decides which one is the correct.But if you seriously want to know, you could ask the same question in the goolge support newsgroup, google.public.support. ;  You would have to understand how the AP wire feed works.  I don't entirely.  My dad runs a radio station and I had a little experience with it, but basically AP, Reuters, and several other news outfits sell access to stories that they produce.It would take much of a programmer to drop those stories into some kind of database and display them based on some criteria. [edited by - yspotua on February 11, 2004 6:07:09 PM]