[imc-melbourne-work] Request for Google News to suspend Indexing

[Lachlan Musicman]

nice one takver

L.

On 1/29/07, takver <tirin at takver.com> wrote:
> Email sent to Google News today regarding indexing:
> http://news.google.com/nwshp?q=Melbourne+Indymedia&ie=UTF-8
> --
> in solidarity
> Takver
>
>
> I am an editor with Melbourne Indymedia.
>
> We would like Google News to temporarily stop automatic indexing from
> our site as we cannot guarantee sufficient editorial control over
> articles posted to our local newswire feed.
>
> As an open publishing site we currently rely on submissions being
> self-filtered through a brief questionnaire about each article. The
> article is then posted to our site to either the Local or Crosspost
> newswire according to the way the questions are answered. Most
> contributors answer truthfully, but some don't.
>
> As editors we take our responsibility seriously and we do intervene
> every day to hide articles or to move them between newswires. However we
> cannot moderate the site 24/7 and sometimes articles that breach
> editorial policy are not hidden for several hours (eg posted overnight)
> and are thus indexed by Google News. Even though we subsequently move
> offending articles to our hidden newswire, once indexed by Google, they
> can still be seen by people through Google News links.
>
> eg: http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/01/137628_comment.php
> http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/01/137700.php
>
> We would like Google News to suspend news indexing for this reason.
>
> We are currently developing a new site to address these problems of
> editorial control. The new site will feature a Promoted newswire where
> editors can move original content that meets our editorial guidelines
> and trusted users (with authenticated user login) can post articles
> directly.
>
> I will notify you when the new site is launched so that indexing can
> begin again.
>
> Takver
> Features Editor
> Melbourne Indymedia
> http://melbourne.indymedia.org
>
> Member of Oceania Indymedia
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