Google News Rolling Into Google Web Search

Google, fresh out of making copyright deals with several major news syndication firms, is aknowledging that recent news articles can hold a very important place in Google web search results. Previously, it accomplished this by including a little box above search results, letting you know if your search term has been getting a lot of media coverage and inviting you over to Google News. Now, Google is actually going to put news results ranked within the regular search results, combining the two in a more convenient way.
Google crawls the entire web, reading every single page on the internet, and it is a time-consuming process that takes a lot of work. More popular websites, and more frequently updated sites, are crawled at a higher rate so that Google gets to them faster, but that still isn’t fast enough. Google News has a seperate crawler that crawls […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg