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Who uses google to find current news articles though? I think this is mostly a non-issue as people use aggregators like HN here or Subreddits or other news read
by danboarder 14y ago
Who uses google to find current news articles though? I think this is mostly a non-issue as people use aggregators like HN here or Subreddits or other news reader apps to filter top stories.
Google is used for what I would call "archive search" and research these days (how to do X, etc) in my experience, not current news.
- ChrisLTD 14y agoI only use Google to find news I've heard about from in-person conversations. I know quite a few people that visit the Verge and similar sites on a daily basis, and they have no intention of reading all their content. I think it's better to think of those high volume sites as newspapers rather than blogs. Most people do not have the time to read an entire newspaper, but that doesn't make it any less valuable.
- mhaymo 14y agoIf I'm just looking for any news in whatever topic, then I'll use the sources you mentioned. However, if I'm looking for more information on a specific subject (e.g. features of Android 4.2), then I'll absolutely Google it.
- anigbrowl 14y agoI get my daily headlines from Google News as a matter of course. I find Reddit unusable for day-to-day news, and only find aggregators such as HN valuable in proportion to their relatively narrow focus. Google News used to be pretty excellent for news dicovery, but it's being SEO'ed into the ground. In recent months I've started seeing letters to the editor presented as news stories.
- bduerst 14y agoEven Reddit can be difficult for daily news. You have to finely tune your subreddit subscriptions otherwise you get a meme whiteout from some of the other subs. Crafted news content matching what I want, with little overhead, is an area I think you could see some disruption.