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Clare Echo

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  • 22-09-2021 10:45am
    #1
    Dhenalau
    Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭


    It is interesting to see this site is picked up by Google News as local news, when the site is in fact a generic news site...

    Wonder what is the Google News selection process?


    Mod Edit - I think the Op meant the Clare Echo (www.clareecho.ie)

    Post edited by Clareman on


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    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    That site seems to have nothing to do with Clare. And I doubt it was created by people. :-D



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    Gregor Samsa
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    When domain names expire (as would have happened to clarepeople.com when they went out of business), they're usually snapped up by specialist companies regardless of what they are. It only costs a few dollars to own them, and if there's any demand, they can sell them for a tidy profit. After snapping them up, they used to just stick a notice on them saying that the domain name was for sale, but with the advent of online advertising, there's probably some money to be made in just cramming a load of affiliate links onto the page and hoping that people with old bookmarks or who come across the site on a Google search will visit the page and click on something. When that happens, the owner of the domain name gets a small payment. Enough of them, and owning a random domain with random news on it can actually be profitable.

    And I doubt there's much human editorial work going on with Google News. Keywords, metadata, the browsing habits of other people all get fed into the secret sauce algorithm, and out pops the links to the "news".



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    Clareman
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    I think the op meant the Clare Echo which was picked up by Google this week



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    BnB
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    Are you sure that Edit is correct @Clareman ?

    The Clare Echo is very much a Clare newspaper and their website looks as normal when I checked it just now.

    The Clare People was a Clare Newspaper that went out of business and who's domain now seems to be used by some generic news/advertising site. I would think that this is what the OP was referring to



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    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 23,955 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118147397#Comment_118147397

    not sure to be honest, as the op is referring to a Clare news outlet being picked up by Google AND the Clare Echo having recently being picked up by google (and the Clare People being gone for years) I assumed that it was that Echo that was being referred to.



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