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"Over the past few weeks, I have seen an influx of both complaints about Google News Spam and publishers being dropped out of the Google News index.  I honestly felt they went hand in hand.I'll point out two threads at Google News Help Forums.  The first mentions a tweet by Googler Matt Cutts who said:The news folks are actually starting a nice crackdown on low-quality/spammy news sources.People have been asking for Google News to step up on their spam detection and they are still asking for it today.  I've complained about it a couple times this year, see "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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