# The search for cites just got easier

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-search-for-cites-just-got-easier/129438>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 24, 2002, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-search-for-cites-just-got-easier/129438 "2002-09-24T10:09:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-search-for-cites-just-got-easier/129438/1 "2002-09-24T10:09:13Z")

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> **[Google News](https://news.google.com/topstories?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en)**
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> Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.

Class. Gives you lots and lots of related news stories.  
I love the end of the page

> [@](#):
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> This page was generated entirely by computer algorithms without human editors.  
> No humans were harmed or even used in the creation of this page.

😃

Well done again google.

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**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-search-for-cites-just-got-easier/129438/2 "2002-09-24T12:11:58Z")

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Nice resource, **Yojimbo**!

This is perhaps the most pertinent page:

> **[Google News](https://news.google.com/topstories?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en)**
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> Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.

- question now becomes; How do they rank the order they list their news sources on any given story…and, given this is real-time reporting, which will they choose to commit to archive ? Time will tell…

Very interesting, though !
