Why did the Animal Liberation reports leave Google news?
Google Grunt | 13.02.2008 00:18 | Analysis | Animal Liberation | Repression | World
In the last few months there have been quite a number of reports have were put onto the promoted newswire, therefore they appeared on the google news searches. However recently it has been noticed that google has begun not including the promoted animal rights articles, despite still including other articles from Indymedia UK which discuss other important topics.
Take a search on google news (aparantly the one and only search engine for news across the globe) for something like "climate chaos"...
http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&um=1&tab=wn&q=climate+chaos&ie=UTF-8&scoring=n
You will notice how one of the latest articles is from Indymedia UK, and it also appears when sorted "by relevance". This is because when IMC mods put articles as "promoted"; it then appears on search engines such as google news.
However, when it comes to animal rights, despite the following articles being promoted by IMC-UK this month, none have appeared on google's news searches under "animal rights" or "animal liberation"; therefore blinding the general public from alternative news sources.
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/391033.html (10th)
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/391014.html (10th)
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/391007.html (10th)
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/390886.html (7th)
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/390673.html (4th)
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/390588.html (3rd)
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/390465.html (1st)
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/390459.html (1st)
This is somewhat dissapointing that google is begining to "cherry pick" topics that it deems necessary, whilst ignoring those that executives probably consider "too extreme" or possibly even too opinionated.
By going back just a few pages, under the search of "animal liberation" you will notice that articles did used to appear:
http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&um=1&tab=wn&scoring=n&q=animal+liberation&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&start=50
Infact, under the search of "sorted by relevance", animal liberation articles from IMC-UK regularly appeared in the top few; some even for weeks following.
In my personal oversight, thumbnails of vandalizism and arsons with links to the criminals reports where no longer what google wanted to promote and link viewers too.
Great shame...
If there's anything IMC mods can do about this issue it would be greatly appreciated. no doubt that if google hasn't started already, it's going to be ignoring a lot more important news from other growing movements...
Rant over.
http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&um=1&tab=wn&q=climate+chaos&ie=UTF-8&scoring=n You will notice how one of the latest articles is from Indymedia UK, and it also appears when sorted "by relevance". This is because when IMC mods put articles as "promoted"; it then appears on search engines such as google news.
However, when it comes to animal rights, despite the following articles being promoted by IMC-UK this month, none have appeared on google's news searches under "animal rights" or "animal liberation"; therefore blinding the general public from alternative news sources.
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/391033.html (10th) https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/391014.html (10th) https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/391007.html (10th) https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/390886.html (7th) https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/390673.html (4th) https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/390588.html (3rd) https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/390465.html (1st) https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/390459.html (1st) This is somewhat dissapointing that google is begining to "cherry pick" topics that it deems necessary, whilst ignoring those that executives probably consider "too extreme" or possibly even too opinionated.
By going back just a few pages, under the search of "animal liberation" you will notice that articles did used to appear:
http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&um=1&tab=wn&scoring=n&q=animal+liberation&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&start=50 Infact, under the search of "sorted by relevance", animal liberation articles from IMC-UK regularly appeared in the top few; some even for weeks following.
In my personal oversight, thumbnails of vandalizism and arsons with links to the criminals reports where no longer what google wanted to promote and link viewers too.
Great shame...
If there's anything IMC mods can do about this issue it would be greatly appreciated. no doubt that if google hasn't started already, it's going to be ignoring a lot more important news from other growing movements...
Rant over.
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