Google file patent for news ranking

[temi]

Google is constantly looking to improve search
Google is planning to improve online news searches.
A patent filed in the US will allow stories to be ranked according to their quality, rather than just by relevance.

The patent would create a system to compare the track record and credibility of different news sources, New Scientist magazine has reported.

The database would weigh up a series of variables, including story length, number of staff employed and amount of traffic to its website.

source/full story: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4508637.stm

 

[Duke]

So I can write a 4 page news article and possibly be ranked higher? I wonder how this works for a lot of the open source software programs like postnuke that have a main body and a readmore body.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

So we can look forward to having lots of BBC news stories at the top then

 

[Duke]

Doesn't bbc stand for big bull crap?

I guess anythings better than repeated news on Michael Jacksons nose and Martha Stewart ignoring house arrest.

 

[ovi]

Maybe we will create a home made script for news and we will go up in Rank )
I think that this will not happend to increase in rank in this way.

Ovi

 

[Paul_KY]

For reliable, fair and balanced news, go to www.foxnews.com

 

[Pentarix]

For reliable, fair and balanced news, go to www.foxnews.com

ROFLMAO!! :armada37:

 

[Paul_KY]

They report, you decide.

America's most trusted news network.

 

[Duke]

They report, you decide.

America's most trusted news network.

Ya but Americans aren't the smartest people on the face of the Earth, they let OJ free.

*waits for rebuttle*

Please don't invade my country now.

I've never looked at them as a news source but will be lurking on their site over the next few weeks to see if what you say is true.