[odf-discuss] News in Google, Yahoo, etc.

Lars Noodén lars at umich.edu
Mon Dec 3 05:12:39 EST 2007


Around the middle of the summer (IIRC) Google and Yahoo news stopped
covering ODF by keyword and started covering MS products and agendas.

For example, on 3 Dec 2007, you see no ODF coverage, but lots of MS
statements and products:
	http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=opendocument&c=
	http://news.google.com/news?q=opendocument%20-site%3Amicrosoft.com%20-site%3Amsn.com%20-site%3Aabout.com&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn&hl=en

Since Google stated a while back (1 or 2 years or so) that they would be
censoring on behalf of various interests (my words not theirs), it would
seem possible that they could adjust the news searches for
"opendocument" so that they actually turn up material on OpenDocument
Format?  Who has contacts at either ad agency I mean search engine?

-Lars



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