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From The Times
April 28, 2005

Search engine to list news reports according to quality

By Mark Henderson, Science Correspondent
GOOGLE, the leading internet search engine, is to improve its news service with an ambitious system that ranks websites according to the quality of their information.

The new search engine would rate news organisations according to the authority of their reports, New Scientist reports today. At present, the Google news search engine ranks entries by the number of times that a report refers to the search term typed-in or places the most recent items first. Articles from large news organisations with considerable authority, such as the BBC, are not given any more weight that less reliably sourced items.

The new system, revealed in patents filed by the company in the United States and other countries, aims to score news sources for authority and reliability. A database will compare the credibility of thousands of news providers globally and adjust its search rankings accordingly. The same system could be extended beyond news to other web searches.

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