Aug 2 2007

Cmon Google News

By Jeremy Schoemaker 58 comments

I got off the plane in Lincoln and I had a text message from Dillsmack saying there was a video online of the bridge collapsing. I hit Google News and searched for it… The first thing I typed in was Minneapolis video and this is what I got:

Following the first listing you get this page. Nice use of every possible Google Adsense link but no video.

Actual Video Of Minnesota Bridge Collapse As It Happened - Original News: The Post Chronicle

Here is the second link which claims to be a Fox News Site. As you can see above Google thinks its authoritative.

So ok Google you say you don’t allow search listings in search listings but you allow these bullshit news sites in Google news that are nothing but made for Adsense sites?

and no I am not saying Google is intentionally profiting from this tragedy.

EDIT:

Found the video here:

http://www.i35bridgevideo.com/

Doyle said on August 2nd, 2007 at 4:10 pm

http://www.kare11.com has pretty good coverage, with a decent amount of video.

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web professor said on August 2nd, 2007 at 4:16 pm

The youtube link of the alleged video is here.

http://www.i35bridgevideo.com/

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Don@AffiliateWatcher said on August 2nd, 2007 at 4:16 pm

Funny you should mention that, I was griping to my wife about the same thing.

Couldn’t find the darn video but found plenty of MFA…umm..”News sites”.

Don

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TylerCruz said on August 2nd, 2007 at 4:20 pm

LOl Shoe whats with the Janet Jackson Tab in

http://myskitch.com/shoemoney/minneapolis_video_-_google_news-20070802-151154/

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Paul. said on August 2nd, 2007 at 4:22 pm

Maybe I should open a “news” site

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printnpost.com said on August 2nd, 2007 at 4:48 pm

that is just wrong! I understand it will be a sudden hot search but to flip it into a money maker is just bad karma

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ShoeMoney said on August 2nd, 2007 at 4:50 pm

*busted* =(

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web professor said on August 2nd, 2007 at 4:50 pm

I guess all the news agencies should shut down then

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web professor said on August 2nd, 2007 at 4:52 pm

lol..
Hopefully Dr. Shoemoney doesn’t read this blog.

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Paul Bradish said on August 2nd, 2007 at 4:52 pm

I would go with Kare11 or WCCO. Fox News has never been very good IMO.

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web professor said on August 2nd, 2007 at 4:55 pm

surely fox is reporting it was a suspected illegal alien terrorist that caused this and who was let in the country by a soft on terror liberal by now.

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CPA Affiliates said on August 2nd, 2007 at 5:16 pm

just shows you people will do anything to make a buck anymore.

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CPA Affiliates said on August 2nd, 2007 at 5:17 pm

*LOL* now that made me laugh…. as i didn’t notice it at first.

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Mubin said on August 2nd, 2007 at 6:47 pm

in haXor talk you just got pwned!

Lets see the link to that Video!

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Funny t-shirts said on August 2nd, 2007 at 10:34 pm

lol, “news arbitrage”

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Todd said on August 2nd, 2007 at 11:33 pm

aahhh trust someone to make money out of it as soon as possible

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mahdi yusuf said on August 2nd, 2007 at 11:35 pm

get em shoemoney!

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SEO Reloaded said on August 2nd, 2007 at 11:36 pm

A lot of news sites are using Adsense Ads and other means of earnings now. Thanks for sharing the video link

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Modern Worker said on August 3rd, 2007 at 12:09 am

I’ve been noticing as well that Google news needs some serious improvement. The sources are crap for a lot of major stories. It seems that the less publicized news stories have better sources indexed. Weird :-S

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Modern Worker said on August 3rd, 2007 at 12:10 am

Unfortunately, this is the case with many, many articles - not just the bridge collapse. News sites are notoriously designed like crap.

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Grivon said on August 3rd, 2007 at 12:13 am

I aswell am disappointed with google news’ quality level - I’m pretty sure you have to be a member of either google adsense and/or ~~doubleclick~~ google to get into the “google news feed” no?

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Charles Online Review said on August 3rd, 2007 at 1:00 am

wow that’s a nice adsense layout to learn from!
I never realize Google News could have used such site as news… Looks like a good news for us who want to create a news site which is searchable from Google News now.

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Travel Notebook said on August 3rd, 2007 at 6:52 am

should have just linked directly to the youtube video

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Travel Notebook said on August 3rd, 2007 at 6:53 am

Do they just hook up to random feeds? How do you get listed in Google News?

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Travel Notebook said on August 3rd, 2007 at 6:55 am

lol Janet Jackson…

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Chris said on August 3rd, 2007 at 6:56 am

I wonder how much the owner of the actual video site is making right now….

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Get Featured said on August 3rd, 2007 at 8:30 am

Where’d they get this video? Right place at the right time, or is this camera some sort of permanent security mounted camera?

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jim said on August 3rd, 2007 at 9:29 am

it’s a security camera

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jim said on August 3rd, 2007 at 9:30 am

aaaaaaaaaaahahahaha that’s awesome

at least it’s not michael

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jim said on August 3rd, 2007 at 9:31 am

You have to request it and then show that you’re big enough, people send in petitions, etc. it’s a drawn out process

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egorych said on August 3rd, 2007 at 9:44 am

Google wants more money. Or may be the rison is a freshness of indexed content: according to my experience Google index sites with adsense ads more often than others.

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SonicReducer said on August 3rd, 2007 at 10:57 am

I don’t even use G news anymore. I actually find Yahoo news better.

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SEO Reloaded said on August 3rd, 2007 at 11:04 am

I just watched the video and its too scary.
@Chris, thats something to think about

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Deelip said on August 3rd, 2007 at 11:16 am

Who cares even if its mikael.

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chrisblogging.com said on August 3rd, 2007 at 12:07 pm

thanks for the link even though it can be tough to watch…

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Jeff. S said on August 3rd, 2007 at 2:06 pm

You should probably link directly to the Google Video.

NO ONE should profit from this event. People have lost their lives.

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Travel Notebook said on August 3rd, 2007 at 3:13 pm

must be some kind of security cam

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Travel Notebook said on August 3rd, 2007 at 3:14 pm

Pretty sad when someones got a site with adsense up already for it.

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Travel Notebook said on August 3rd, 2007 at 3:15 pm

I doubt anyone is clicking the links

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Travel Notebook said on August 3rd, 2007 at 3:16 pm

Wonder if there is a better video that will surface soon

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Freebies said on August 3rd, 2007 at 4:32 pm

Wait, somebody actually has a domain about the bridge crash and is running adsense ads at the top? Kinda shady…

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BloggingDosh said on August 3rd, 2007 at 5:37 pm

I can remember when Google News had just a few news sites indexed and they verified and continued to verify each one. THe quality back then was really great but the speed at which they found new stories was not as good.

I think Google should put resources towards the qualty of sites indexed on Google News.

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BloggingDosh said on August 3rd, 2007 at 5:38 pm

Someone actually has done that? IF they have thats horrible.

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CPA Affiliates said on August 3rd, 2007 at 10:52 pm

they probably got the template in que just waiting for the next hot story to crank out a page on.

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cooliojones said on August 4th, 2007 at 2:31 am

With a ll of these cameras in the world and the goverment watching our every move seemingly, I would think they would have more footage than just a security camera. But it’s still a frightening video.

They don’t waste time in getting a website devoted to it tough huh? The only thing is, they won’t make long-term money from it.

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Brian said on August 4th, 2007 at 12:56 pm

It is sad that Google news doesn’t seem to check quality now. It used to be awesome.

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BlueDevilMedia said on August 4th, 2007 at 3:01 pm

lol thats funny!

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BlueDevilMedia said on August 4th, 2007 at 7:54 pm

In America, someone always profits. Ethics have been replaced by profit margins.

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The Dino said on August 4th, 2007 at 11:01 pm

Google behaves realy strange sometimes. I am pushed away from first position by sites which have review of my site or using keywords with link to my site.

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Michael Fultz said on August 4th, 2007 at 11:07 pm

I think that Google would rather direct you to sites where Adsense scripts would be running.. that’s why you got what you got..

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ritchie said on August 5th, 2007 at 6:14 am

That thought just came to my mind, too.

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ritchie said on August 5th, 2007 at 6:14 am

Yeah, it’s rather adsense sites than news sites.

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ritchie said on August 5th, 2007 at 6:15 am

It really worked great in the beginning, but now there’s far better sources.

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ritchie said on August 5th, 2007 at 6:16 am

If they continue running their business like that, it’s the best thing we can happen. Cause this way competitors get a serious chance to enter the market…

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Leonid Shalimov said on August 6th, 2007 at 10:02 am

Can’t believe that dude made a website out of it…

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stupid 3gp said on August 6th, 2007 at 4:10 pm

Google need money and google is greedy

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Nathan H said on August 7th, 2007 at 10:47 am

Did you even read the post at all about it being a FAKE fox site

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chrisblogging.com said on August 7th, 2007 at 1:01 pm

This video is still making the rounds. I was happy to read that the death toll was not as high as once thought…

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