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Google News Explosion

Google really improved its service with its news.google.com news service, which gathered the news of 4000 news sites in one search place. However, there is one flaw that Google News has. If a story is reported to the Associated Press, it becomes almost impossible to search for the place where the story comes from, or to search for other stories. For example, if an event occurred in Richmond, and it gets reported to the AP, then it will appear in the San Antonio news site, and in the Sacramento news site, and in the news sites of Peoria, Philadelphia, La Crosse WI, Orlando, Truth or Consequences NM, Great Britain, Sydney Australia, and a zillion other local news sites. You then have to next and next and next and next and next through all these sites to get to a site from the Richmond area. It is easier simply to go to the Richmond station to begin with and forget Google. I think the service would be improved if it blocked (upon clicking a checkbox by the user) all sites reporting the event except AP and the city of origin of the event, if the event gets reported to the AP.