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    BBC News is completely dominating “news” results right now and Google is trying to fix it
    BuzzFeed / Mark Di Stefano and Ryan Mac / May 15, 2018
    “Last week, the website Indivigital noticed that British searches for the term ‘news’ in Google News returned a flood of BBC News articles. Four days ago, every single result in the top 50 was a BBC News article, with 97 of the top 100 coming from the British broadcaster. By Monday morning, 48 of the top 50 were BBC News. It’s an issue that appears confined to the UK.” —
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