Hi Christian,
Thank you for your note. We are working to increase our capacity to respond in German. At this time, however, we are only able to answer in English. We realize this is an inconvenience and we are striving to improve our service.
As you may know, Google News is highly unusual in that it offers a news service compiled solely by computer algorithms without human intervention. While the sources of the news vary in perspective and editorial approach, their selection for inclusion is done without regard to political viewpoint or ideology. Please be aware, however, that we do not currently include sites that are purely news aggregators. Similarly, we do not include news-related blogs or other news-related sites that are written and maintained by a single individual.
Google News currently gathers articles by crawling online news sites. Following are some general technical guidelines which will help our crawler to find and index articles from your site correctly:
1. In order for our crawler to correctly gather articles, each page that displays an article's full text needs to have a unique URL that does not change. We cannot include sites in Google News that display multiple articles at the same URL.
2. In addition, the URL for each article must contain a unique number consisting of at least 3 digits.
For example, our news crawler would not crawl articles with the following
URLs:
www.google.com/lemurs_in_the_mist.html
www.google.com/news/article23.html
It would crawl:
www.google.com/news/08112003/article.html
www.google.com/news/lemurs_in_the_mist/23467.html
3. You may also want to keep in mind that we cannot include sites where the URL of the main page includes a date. URLs with dates in them often change on a daily or weekly basis. This prevents us from crawling the site for new content, as we are unable to detect the most current URL to be crawled.
For example, if a URL changes from /novembernews.html to /decembernews.html, Google will continue to crawl the novembernews.html page, and thus not find any new content.
4. With regard to link structure: our automated crawler is currently best able to crawl regular HTML links. We are unable to crawl image links or links embedded in Javascript.
An example of a site that we are able to crawl successfully is
https://english.chosun.com . Please note that each article on this site has a highly unique and unchanging URL associated with it.
We appreciate your support as we work to improve Google News. If you have any further questions, please let us know.
Regards,
The Google Team
