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July 19, 2006
Google News operators
Google News operators: Off-topic, but it came through MXNA... Jon Udell of InfoWorld tries "site:infoworld.com" searches on Google News. I don't think that engine uses the "site:" operator... if you do a regular search on text "infoworld" then articles come up... Google News uses a "source:" operator instead, with a private syntax naming each news service (example). Here's a Google News search to find recent InfoWorld articles on Vista. Summary: Google News uses slightly different advanced search operators than Google websearch... GoogleGuide.com has a useful comparison listing of the advanced operators used in various Google search engines. (Jon's main point, about "How does Google News decides who's an authoritative news source?", remains a live and vibrant question, however... sites have been blacklisted due to complaints from others, and I'm glad I'm not the editor on that one.... ;-)
Posted by JohnDowdell at July 19, 2006 11:38 AM
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Those searches are picking up the weblogs and a foreign site, not the main www.infoworld.com site.
Posted by: Seth Finkelstein at July 20, 2006 12:01 PM
Google News uses slightly different advanced search operators than Google websearch... GoogleGuide.com has a useful comparison listing of the advanced operators used in various Google search engines.
I think so!!
[jd sez: The above is actually a spam entry. I've deleted the URL. Industrious, though, how this, ah, person synthesized entry text with a little bit of generic original content.]
Posted by: Danielle at July 21, 2006 09:16 AM