It hasn’t been my module for many years, the module is now maintained by Dave Reid: http://drupal.org/project/googlenews

Adam

The googlenews.xml file that is generated from this module doesn’t define urlset, doesn’t include the XML version, and doesn’t display any entries unless the user is an authenticated administrator of the web site in question. You can see my current installation of this module here: http://www.koreaittimes.com/googlenews.xml. Its empty. I modified the module using the information found at http://drupal.org/node/206757 and set permissions for anonymous users to access, create, and even administer there was no difference.

I would love to have this work because Google is currently waiting for me to have a news sitemap before integrating my site into their news section.

http://drupal.org/project/googlenews

Hope this helps you and best of luck with your site.

One of these days, I’ll UG to D6.

I’ve not used Drupal 5 but the Googlenews module is only a few functions and from looking at the Drupal 5 API, it would only require a few changes to the hook_ functions.

I like the idea of adding taxonomy to the selection options. When I get a chance, I’ll see if I can update the code to handle this.

In the meantime, you can try it by enhancing the ‘googlenews_admin_settings’ function (downloadable version of the module in the link at the top of this page).

Repeat the code used to query and select from node_type, but query the term_data table instead.

Now, in the SQL that generates the news feed, you can use this selection to restrict the feed to specific node types and categories.

For pinging Google, we currently use Feedburner, it automatically pings a load of blog/news services for us and most visit within a few minutes. I guess the fact Google owns Feedburner may be another reason Google News works well with it!