News search engine

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A news search engine (also: news or: news aggregator ) is a specialty search engine , the current online - media searched. For research on current topics, news search engines are an important addition to general search engines.

history

After Google introduced a German-language version of Google News in 2003 , the importance of the other German-language news search engines declined. Previously, Paperball , a service provided by Fireball , was the main news search engine . In addition to Google, other search engine providers such as Yahoo or Bing also offer German-language news searches. There are also independent German news search engine providers such as News Readers.

In February 2011, the news search engine Commentarist , which had only collected and displayed comments from newspaper websites along with the headline and a short excerpt, temporarily ceased operations after threatening legal action by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Süddeutsche Zeitung . The publishers saw their copyright infringement through the Commentarist's service; This was countered by the fact that Google News offers users a comparable offer. After entering into agreements with various media providers (to which FAZ and Süddeutsche Zeitung do not belong), the service was online again in September 2011, but later ceased operations entirely.

The indexing of online media by search engines led to the introduction of ancillary copyright law for press publishers in Germany , particularly in August 2013 as part of the copyright reform .

criticism

The disadvantage of news search engines is that they usually only cover a comparatively limited period of time and only index a brief summary of the messages. Searching in newspaper archives is either reserved for paid offers or has to be carried out using the website search engine of the comparatively few online media that maintain a publicly accessible page archive.

A work from 2013 gave news search engines poor ratings in terms of transparency, diversity and timeliness of hits. Were investigated Google News , MSN Newsbot, the news search Netzeitung , Paper Ball , Web.de News and Yahoo News some of which now no longer exist. Above all, the diversity of the proven sources was rated as disappointing. In particular, the boundaries between journalism and public relations (see content marketing ) would be mixed up. In addition, news search engines are not able to map qualitative relevance; the order of the hit list is based on purely technical criteria, which could ultimately lead to consequences that are difficult to foresee both for journalism and for users (and also for democratic discourse). The classification of the news search engines as a limited variety of content was also questioned because it is unclear what the benchmark for the evaluation is. Sorting the results according to qualitative relevance instead of technical criteria would also violate search neutrality .

literature

  • Marcel Machill , Dirk Lewandowski, Stefan Karzaunikat: Journalistic topicality on the Internet. An experiment with the “news search functions” of search engines. ( PDF , 60 pp., 6.9 MB). In: Marcel Machill, Norbert Schneider (Hrsg.): Search engines: New challenges for media politics. State Institute for Media North Rhine-Westphalia (= LfM Media Research Series, 50), Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-89158-410-5 , pp. 105–164.
  • Stephan Ott: Is it permissible to create thumbnails using image and news search engines? An analysis of US and German case law. In: Journal for Copyright and Media Law 2007, pp. 119–128.
  • David A. Weaver and Bruce Bimber: Finding news stories. A comparison of searches using LexisNexis and Google News. In: Journalism & mass communication quarterly. 2008, pp. 515-530.
  • Constantin Fahl: Searching for images and news on the Internet: aspects of copyright, personality and competition law . V & R unipress, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89971-657-3 .
  • Markus Beiler: Searching for news on the Internet: content analysis of the journalistic quality of news search engines . 1st edition. UVK, Konstanz 2013, ISBN 978-3-86764-412-9 .
  • Korbinian Hartl: Search engines and their role in the process of free opinion formation . In: Search Engines, Algorithms and Opinion Power . Springer, Wiesbaden, 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-16826-1 , pp. 38-73 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-658-16827-8_4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Google launches German-language news service , heise online, July 8, 2003.
  2. ↑ News Reader Homepage. Retrieved February 10, 2016 .
  3. ^ Ole Reissmann: Start-up offline. Publishers dump commentarist.de from the net. Spiegel Online, February 4, 2011, accessed February 12, 2011 .
  4. ^ "Commentarist is collecting opinion texts again" , Spiegel online from September 12, 2011, accessed on February 2, 2013.
  5. ↑ Beiler, Markus: News search on the Internet: content analysis of the journalistic quality of news search engines . 1st edition. UVK, Konstanz 2013, ISBN 978-3-86764-412-9 . , quoted from: Christopher Koska: Markus Beiler: News search on the Internet. Content analysis of the journalistic quality of news search engines . In: Communicatio Socialis . tape 47 , no. 2 , July 4, 2014, ISSN  2198-3852 , p. 254–256 ( communicatio-socialis.de [accessed on November 23, 2017]).
  6. ^ Dennis Reineck: Markus Beiler (2013): Searching for news on the Internet. Content analysis of the journalistic quality of news search engines. Constancy . In: M&K Media & Communication Studies . tape 1 , 2014, p. 102 - 103 , doi : 10.5771 / 1615-634x-2014-1-102 ( nomos-elibrary.de ).