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Google Evolves But Remains Buggy

Google News weird errors

By Bogdan Popa, Security and Search Engines Editor

27th of August 2007, 15:05 GMT

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Well, it happened again and I bet I'm not the only one who saw this error: "Your search - google - did not match any documents. Suggestions: Make sure all words are spelled correctly; Try different keywords; Try more general keywords; Try Google Blog Search; Also, you can browse
today's headlines on the Google News homepage." If you still don't get it, I searched Google News for the term "Google" and, as you can see, the technology sustains there are no articles containing this term. Some time ago, I found this error on Google News but it seems like not even by now it was repaired by the parent company Google. However, the search giant recently added video support to the news service, allowing the readers to view clips usually posted on YouTube.

Google News is quite a useful technology because it receives information from about 4500 sources from all over the world and provides one click access to all of them. However, the Mountain View company was often criticized because Google News receives praises for the content provided by other companies. Even so, Google remains one of the most powerful products in its category, having a well-developed technology that offers access to valuable articles and websites.

"Our headlines are selected entirely by computer algorithms, based on factors like how often and where a story appears online. Google News has no human editors selecting stories or deciding which ones deserve top placement," it is mentioned in the Google news description.

"This is very much in the tradition of Google Web Search, which relies on the collective judgment of online publishers to determine which sites offer the most valuable and relevant information. Similarly, Google News relies on the collective judgment of online news organizations to determine which stories are most deserving of inclusion and prominence on the News homepage."

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