Led by NathanStoll, former product lead of Google News, Mechanical Zoo may launch in beta as early as May, 2008. Search Engine Watch readers may remember Stoll's Google News presentation at SES San Jose in 2005.
Back on May 23, 2007, IDG News Service asked NathanStoll, the product manager of Google News if he had any plans to add a video component to Google News. Stoll said then, "We don't want to preannounce any features, but our Google News philosophy...
We believe that more information means more choice, more freedom and ultimately more power for people," said NathanStoll, product manager for Google News. Google News gets more press mentions than other news search engines.
Google's Stoll provided a number of tips and pitfalls on optimizing news feeds and articles for Google. Google News has its own crawlers that goes out and is very, very rapidly scanning all the new sites that we have in our corpus, basically trying...