Update on Profindpages and Profindsearch
Profindpages may be back online (hopefully) in the early part of December. If it is, there will be a number of changes made to its appearance and it may take a few weeks to make these alterations.
Google have decided to stop taking News articles from Profindsearch (just as they did on Profindpages). No reason was given for their decision, but then, they are the mighty Google, so perhaps they don't think they have to.
I was curious to see whether other News sites were also getting the same treatment on Google News and I was surprised to find some "big" names included. Google have effectively two groups that they take articles from. The "A" group can get its articles shown on all the main pages. But if you are in the "B" group, your articles are accepted, but do not appear on the main pages. If you check on Google News you can see an example of this.
Go to the top stories page and click on the "related" link on any of the articles. This will produce a list of sites that have written articles a few minutes ago, a few hours ago and sometimes a few days ago. As you look through this list you will discover that, after a number of entries, the articles written a few hours or days ago, suddenly start showing stories that were written more recently. But are placed at the bottom of the earlier entries.
These are the two groups. The earlier entries are the "favoured" sites, and the remainder are not!
If you make a list of the sites that appear in the favoured group, you will find that they have something in common. To give you a clue, check to see who owns or runs them. If you dig deep enough, you may find that that these "people" have current or historic roots in Russia. But then, so does the founder of Google, a coincidence? (Probably not).
This is just another example of who provides the News and what News they want you to hear!
Sadly, sites like mine (and almost all the other websites that provide alternative news) rely on the mainstream media to get exposure. But if you are not a member of the right "Club", they don't allow you to get seen.
Now that we have been gagged again, we don't have to worry about writing articles that may get us removed from Google News. So the News we provide on Profindsearch will include articles that are not restricted in any way.
We have also set up a Forum where we are discussing a number of different topics and you can check this out HERE
The Forum is quite new, but it already has more than 50 members and almost 2,000 articles posted. You are of course very welcome to visit and post your comments there (open new topics if you wish). As it is part of my site, it's easier for me to visit more often (one of the reasons I haven't been able to post here as much as I would like).
I hope you will find a few minutes to check the Forum out and join us in some of the discussions.
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