Tuesday, September 21, 2004

HOWTO: Google News without subscription news sources

Since apparently newspapers are increasingly requiring you to register so they can spam you, I'd prefer to get my news from people who don't do this. Unfortunately Google News lately seems to have "Subscription Required" sources as the first entries (this might just be that the underlying newsources are increasingly requiring subscription) but there are usually equivelent non-subscription sources. Using the advanced search though you can make a query which finds results without the word subscription (or just put -subscription on the end of the query). I made the following search box to find things in Google News that don't require a subscription:

Google News

Update: Some people are claiming that Google News is right leaning. I haven't really noticed this but if it's true it's probably more reflection of the overall statistics of the collection of news sources they use. Maybe some day they'll have an advanced setting for setting the media bias -- Patent pending!

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