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EnCirca  
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 More options Jul 23, 2:17 pm
From: EnCirca
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:17:49 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Wed, Jul 23 2008 2:17 pm
Subject: Invalid and inappropriate search results
When I perform a google-news search for my company name, one of the
results being returned has no reference to my company name.  However,
it does contain unflattering references to some of my competitors.

Is this a Google-News "feature" or is it caused by some hidden meta
tags added by the party who issued the press release?

How do I request this result to be taken offline, or omitted when my
company is searched?  I suspect it gets returned for other non-related
strings as well.

1. google-news query="encirca"
2. see result called "Kids at Risk: Report Identifies 150 Websites
Selling Anabolic Steroids"
3. explain why this result is being returned for this query since
"encirca" is not reference anywhere in the release or on any the
websites linked to in the article.

thanks


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EnCirca  
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 More options Jul 24, 5:07 pm
From: EnCirca
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:07:09 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs, Jul 24 2008 5:07 pm
Subject: Re: Invalid and inappropriate search results
It happened again today.

see
http://www.webnewswire.com/node/445031

this is clearly some google-news "similarity algorithm" gone haywire.

On Jul 23, 2:17 pm, EnCirca wrote:


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