Looking at the recent hype around Joran van der Sloot and his role in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, this seems to be one of the functions that Google is still missing. It does support searching in blogs and news sites, but when I Google for Joran van der Sloot, I find old news.
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Google could make it’s functionality just a little bigger, by implementing this function. It wouldn’t take too much effort for Google to implement, since it stores the time and date on which the page was found. It’s easy to add a single checkbox, wether or not to sort on news value (in combination with relevance, to keep the level of results high).
The power of Google within hypes
Once a news item, or activity becomes known in the world, people start Googling. As people are curious, they want to know everything about it and off course Google plays a major role in all this.
Google provides searching in blogs with Blogsearch and searching in News with Google News. With the ‘normal’ search engine, you will search in both and in all the other websites. But what if we want the functions of Google News (order of search results) in combination with the power of the ‘normal’ search?
Making Google even better
No doubt, I’m a big fan of Google, but with this slight change Google could add some functionality that will enable people to search into new results. Doing so, the search engine would provide more functionality to provide people that want to search in hot news and they will make the search engine even better!
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Great idea, but I don’t think google would implement such a big change
Well, if they blend it nicely in their pages, it should work out without bothering people that don’t use it.