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Editorial by Marc Aupiais of South African Catholic and the
Scripturelink.net news services

For ages now, I have been using Agenzia Fides for insight on Africa,
its conflicts, its humanitarian problems. It was an on the ground news
service, that I simply grew to love, despite its bad formatting and its
programmer's poor programming skills.

Today by chance, I realized what I hadn't before, with all the hundreds
of their articles I have read, Fides is the Vatican's official
missionary news service, yes, I was as surprised as anyone could be.
Vatican services are usually centered on the pope, out of touch, or
plain boring, with a bit of snobbery, but not Fides, Fides, seems a
genuinely expert service, the sort with goes with sources which are
generally correct, and the right people to be speaking in the first
place.

So the quesation emerges, we used to place Fides dispatches on our
site, and they, like the dispatches e would place from Vatican
Information Service, would get way higher ranking in Google results
than Fides' own articles...

Should we do so again, what do you, our readers think- do you find
Fides useful, as we do, as we find VIS useful also..? Or is it just a
media thing?

On a different note, we have finally updated our Vatican Search site
with a 21st hierarchical search engine. We have independently compiled:

http://vaticansearch.scripturelink.net/earthglobalbishops/

To search the world's Bishops' Conferences. While on the
http://vaticansearch.scripturelink.net/ site, it is a separate search
engine, as it does not search the Vatican itself, and is thereby
disconnected from out main navigation on the site!

God bless, happy surfing.

Marc Aupiais

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Posted By scripturelink to South African Catholic at 11/09/2009
02:52:00 PM