Where is it? I keep checking each day to find my Google news in Denmark and to no avail. I can read it for the other Nordic countries, but not Denmark. Has Google forgotton the Danish Kingdom altogether? Why do I have to look up all those local media sites and remember what they are called, just because Google has forgotten me. I think it is because media companies like Berlingske and JP Politiken (and DR), have put a script on their site that says (robot.txt), keep out of our turf!
How long can this last? Not long I believe.
September 26, 2007 at 8:55 am |
The easiest solution would perhaps be to just subscribe to your desired Danish feeds via your newsreader:-) Most of these newspapers have finally made RSS-feeds more available to their readers. That Google is enemy no. 1 is not unique to Danish papers though, many other newspaper groups like the Norwegian Schibsted and the Dutch Wegener have explicitly talked about Google in those terms, though preferred solutions vary…
September 26, 2007 at 9:39 am |
Feeds are great for specific updates I agree. However a news aggregator allows you to skan whats happening in a number of countries in a really aggregated format. You see in the Nordics there are, wait for it, 5 countries and that would be a lot of feeds to set-up
September 29, 2007 at 5:04 pm |
Yes, well for me as a media junkie it’s simple: just subscribe to all the Scandinavian media feeds:-) This is not straightforward though: in Denmark my favourite media coverage is that of Berlingske, but mediawatch.dk doesn’t provide feeds – just an annoying email letter, don’t like stuff clogging up my email box. Sweden is so and so, but Norway is pretty good on media feeds, though MSM here has missed out on great parts of the rest of the social media revolution – like blogs…