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102 Google Patents
News Search Sort
May 6,
2005 - Google Inc. has applied
for U.S. and international patents on technology to rank
stories on its news site based on the quality of the news
source.
Google's search engine now
automatically scours about 4,500 news sources and highlights
stories typically by popularity and timeliness. The company
has not disclosed full details of its ranking
system.
TVInews and Yes90 Your Easy Search,
plans to be the first to utilize the Google News, gathers
articles from disparate news outlets such as ABC News, Voice
of America, the Christian Science Monitor, the New China
News Agency, Reuters, Bloomberg News and the Los Angeles
Times.
Industry watchers said that, over time,
Google News had come to depend on more-established news
providers for its content.
A Google spokesman confirmed that the
company had applied for the patents, but declined to comment
on whether the company was using the
technology.
As weblogs and other commentary sites
proliferate, postings from some have received prominent play
within search result pages and on online news-gathering
sites. Some of the postings have carried biased or
inaccurate claims.
The technology that Google is
attempting to patent may help the company choose the most
reliable information sources. Some Web commentators have
said it would create a bias toward mainstream news
sources.
Google filed its U.S. patent
application in September 2003, and it is in line for review
by patent examiners. It covers "systems and methods for
improving the ranking of news articles" based on the
"quality" of the news source.
According to the application, factors
determining such rankings would include the amount of
important coverage produced by an identified news source,
network traffic to the source, circulation statistics, staff
size, breadth of coverage and the number of bureaus the news
source operates.
Google's related international patent
application, published in late March under the Patent
Cooperation Treaty, was first reported in New Scientist
magazine this week.
"It sounded to me like it would be
useful not just for news but for search results as well,"
said Topix.net Chief Executive Rich Skrenta, who had not
reviewed the patent applications.
The risk in depending only on large,
established news providers is that a news site "might be
leaving a lot of really good material on the floor," Skrenta
said.
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