Google News
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| Internet news site | |
| languages | more than 35 |
| operator | Google LLC |
| Registration | Google account optional (for personalized view) |
| On-line | April 2002 |
| https://news.google.com/ | |
Google News is a news search engine and automatically generated messages - site of the US company Google LLC .
The service is available in over 70 countries in more than 35 languages and is also available as an app for iOS and Android . In April 2002, the service started in English in the development stage , which it remained in until January 23, 2006. The German version followed in 2003 and uses more than 700 news sources from German-speaking countries. It is also still in the development stage.
According to the provider, the selection of articles is only automated.
functionality
The messages on the website do not come from the provider itself, but are compiled by computers using an algorithm from a large number of news sources ( aggregator ). In order to be listed on Google News, a separate registration is necessary. The entries are generated automatically and constantly updated. Google therefore refrains from journalistic processing according to relevance or truthfulness of the articles by human hands. The relevance of an article results from the number of requests, among other things. Google News will then provide the relevant links . The algorithm used to automatically index the articles goes back to Krishna Bharat , a leading researcher at Google, in 2001.
More functions
A personalization of Google News is also possible.
This means that the search log is changed in relation to the main topics selected by the user. Registration is required for this. You can also subscribe to web feeds in RSS and Atom formats and have new messages sent to your mobile phone and your own e-mail address ( news alerts ).
Arguments
News agency
In March 2005, the news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) sued Google for damages of 13.2 million euros in an American court. The reason was the indexing of AFP articles on Google News. AFP repeatedly asked Google not to use the content without permission. The legal dispute over the use of the AFP's images, texts and files lasted for two years. In April 2007, both sides announced that they had reached an agreement by purchasing the license for Google to use it.
Google also made similar agreements with other news agencies for the use of their content. So with the Associated Press , the Press Association and The Canadian Press . In March 2009 the European Pressphoto Agency (epa) concluded an agreement with Google News for the use of content and images by eight of the eleven epa members. Among the three non-participants is the German news agency dpa , one of the largest members of the epa.
Situation in Belgium
Belgian newspaper publishers are suing Google because they see the copyrights of their newspapers at risk through the processing of Google News. The newspaper publishers filed a lawsuit against the search engine operator back in 2006, whereupon they were right. Google appealed the judgment. In May 2008, the publishers filed another lawsuit. In 2011 a court ruled that text excerpts and images from the newspapers can no longer be aggregated in Google News. Google then deleted all references to French and German-language newspapers in Belgium from the search index.
Spain
Spain passed a law that would have required Google to pay a fee to authors and publishers from January 1, 2015. This fee should have been paid regardless of whether the publisher had asked for it or not. That's why Google stopped its news service on December 16, 2014.
archive
In 2006, the English version of the news service was expanded to include an archive search for older issues of the New York Times and the Washington Post . This service was expanded with a new version on September 8, 2008. However, the archive search also led to a momentous incident for the American airline United Airlines :
On Sunday, September 7th, 2008, Google News computers indexed a 2002 article from the Sun-Sentinel website , a sister site of the Chicago Tribune that originally published the article. The title of the article was "United Airlines Files for Bankruptcy". The page did not contain any information on the date of publication. According to the New York Times, the following Monday morning the information service provider Income Security Advisors sent the Bloomberg news service various articles about bankruptcy reports. Including probably the article about United Airlines from 2002. Bloomberg took over the report and published it. In a matter of minutes, the airline's share price plummeted, losing more than $ 1 billion in value. Trading in the share was then temporarily suspended. The entry was not linked on the Google News homepage, but could be found using the search function.
As a result, criticism was voiced of Google News' practice of not checking the articles for topicality, relevance or truthfulness.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ google.com : Languages and Regions ( Memento from March 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Because of the "Google fee": Google News is closed in Spain , heise online
- ↑ Krishna Bharat: And now, News , The Official Google Blog, January 23, 2006
- ↑ Google launches German-language news service , heise online, July 8, 2003
- ↑ Everything about Google News ( Memento from March 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), information from google.de, accessed on March 20, 2017
- ↑ Successful inclusion in Google News , Google News Help
- ↑ AFP news agency suing Google , heise online, March 19, 2005
- ↑ French news agency reaches agreement with Google , heise online, April 7, 2007
- ^ Google allies with press agencies , Spiegel Online , March 17, 2009
- ↑ Belgian newspaper publishers are again demanding compensation from Google , heise online, May 28, 2008
- ↑ Google blocks Belgian newspapers , heise online
- ^ From for Google News in Spain , strandgazette.com, accessed: December 28, 2014
- ↑ Michael Hanfeld: The Great Raubzug , FAZ , September 9, 2008
- ↑ Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time , The Official Google Blog, September 8, 2008, accessed March 20, 2017
- ↑ a b Miguel Helft: How a Series of Mistakes Hurt Shares of United , The New York Times , September 14, 2008
- ↑ Thomas Schuler: Automatic Crash ( Memento from February 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 16, 2008