[LINK] Google News Bugs
Roger Clarke
Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Tue Mar 23 09:47:47 AEDT 2010
Google has had a lot of trouble with its approach to Google News.
It's depended on its bright employees to be able to strike through
complexity, and deliver useful results, without any apparent
specification, and with testing (yuk) delegated to users.
A while back, I used Google News (and Google Scholar) as one means of
checking out the early uses of the term 'cloud computing'.
Answering a query from an editor this morning, I went back to
re-check the earliest use I'd located of the term in the sense in
which it's being used these days. (It was used both more loosely and
for other things, prior to early-mid 2006).
The results delivered by Google News are rather different from what
they were a couple of months ago, and a complete hodge-podge.
In particular, dates much earlier than early-mid 2006 turn up, but
appear to be simply errors. They appear to be picking up text from
later articles, and treating it as thought it was in an article of a
much earlier date.
I was using Advanced News Archive Search, at:
http://news.google.com/archivesearch/advanced_search?ned=au&hl=en
Switching to the somewhat obscure Timeline option, I got:
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22cloud+computing%22&num=50&as_price=p0&as_user_ldate=2005&as_user_hdate=2006&hl=en&ned=au&sa=N&lnav=m&scoring=t
It'll be a great service once it works ...
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Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/
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Visiting Professor in the Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre Uni of NSW
Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University
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