Newsknife finds dramatic changes in Google News ratings

Google announced that it would start hosting material produced by The Associated Press (AP) and three other wire services on Google News. "After just 9 days, it looks like this is already having a big effect on the relevance rankings of news sites there," Newsknife has just reported. Newsknife, which is based in New Zealand, compared its pre-wire-service rankings for all of August with its wire-services-included rankings for the first nine days of September. While the September sample is small -- only 9,010 listings by 1,092 sites for 72 news stories -- Newsknife finds the changes are dramatic.

Bron: SearchEngineWatch