Comments on: Update your news article online? Not if Google News has anything to do with it.

By: paulbradshaw

paulbradshaw — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:16:00 +0000

@Pete, great idea – in a sense that’s what my news diamond proposes – although the stub is on Twitter, the draft on a blog, and article on website – all pointing to each other. But I love the idea of a stub inviting contribution.

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:45:30 +0000

This might be too revolutionary, but here’s a solution. Think Wikipedia

Newspaper publishes “stub” article of breaking news. Google indexes it.

Newspaper updates article under a new URL. Google indexes new page.

Old URL redirects to new URL, meaning any links to old URL still work.

New URL has “history” link to previous versions so readers can see how the story evolved.

Feasible?

By: links for 2008-04-10 « David Black

links for 2008-04-10 « David Black — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:38:18 +0000

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By: Allison White

Allison White — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:45:26 +0000

Well, that’s inconvienent, isn’t it? I guess any significant updates or changes to an article should just be put into a separate article.

I’ve always thought that video and images should be accompanied by a short amount of text to give some context. How many people just jump into a video without reading the background or a synopsis of it?

By: David North

David North — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:44:52 +0000

I’m surprised that Google News doesn’t use a bespoke sitemap service just for news articles here (unless I’ve missed it). Just add a lastmodified attribute to a story and Google would know straight away the story is updated.

By: Ian Douglas

Ian Douglas — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:06:02 +0000

Vital as aggregators are, it’s still worth creating content (video, for example) that will grab and inform the visitors to the pages. Google News will catch up, I’m sure.