How does Google-News work? or How can we get FR to appear in there?

[PRePublic]

I see all those far left websites bumped at http://news.google.com, let alone AlJazeera "info", but even less recognized far left or even Arabist, Islamisdts "sources".

Question is, How does that team of Google-News work? Is there a team taht decides who's on & who's not?

[TBP]

Google is a selctive, left-wign organization. It would probably not be open to FR or any other conservative sites.

[billybudd]

The problem is that FreeRepublic just links to articles from other media sources. There is *some* original content, but the site simply is not organized around it. It's organized as an aggregator. So, it's not fit for Google News.

FreeRepublic could set up a blog that aggregates original articles posted by FR members. That would make it feasible to cite FreeRepublic as a news source.

[RedRover]

This may be a sidebar to the main question but...

I signed up for Google News Alerts via e-mail under various keywords. Every so often I get Google e-mails alerting me to a Free Republic thread about the keyword. I've even gotten News Alerts to threads I posted.

So Google is "reading" us as news, at least in part.

[sure_fine]

DITTO

[maquiladora]

As simple as this.

Recommend a news source

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

So Google is "reading" us as news ...

And filtering, no doubt.

[PRePublic]

Thanks for your great reply, but so does lefty indymedia, If I am not mistaken.
Actually by in large, FR linking to other sources makes it more "busy" on main google as a whole, but never on news.google.com

[PRePublic]

That's encouraging, though I never bump into it when I just go to http://news.google.com which MOST online users do.

[PRePublic]

great, I hope, the more of us do just that, it will help.

[SoFloFreeper]

Google News: All the news we think you ought to see.