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How Google Views News
By Dot Journalism
News Source
Article Date: 2003-04-16
Google has come under fire again from online journalists for watering down the definition of ‘news’.
In UK web magazine The Register, Andrew Orlowski shows that the search engine is re-publishing press releases in the same category as real news.
"You may not think of Coca Cola or the Microsoft Corporation as legitimate news organisations," he said. "But Google News thinks so. It's redefined the term "news" so that press releases from corporate sites or lobby groups are acceptable content for the "automated" news harvester.
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