More on Google News while Google’s banned in China
There already is professional reaction to Google News.
Scripting.com points out The New York Times has partnership deal with the search engine that lets unregistered readers view the Times’s story. Not doubt, there is some sort of compensation deal here.E-media Tidbits reports on Google’s problems with wire stories and its use of photos.
Also, at Google News you cannot use the site:example.com to limit your results, however you can still do something like this: nortel "globe and mail" to get all stories on Nortel from The Globe and Mail.
Given this is a beta, Google is asking for feedback, so if you have any, please send it to them.
There was a lot of buzz at the start of September about Google being banned by China for providing access to non-approved news. While the country (partly) relented, China is still silencing people.
Reports are coming out that a dissident online-writer from China is now in jail for publishing his thoughts. According to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, Chen Shaowen is the 14th online journalist imprisoned.