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Sounds like a nice idea but isn't Google News already doing a decent job on this? It's going to be hard to beat the speed of Twitter or Google News in my opinio
by mojaam 12y ago
Sounds like a nice idea but isn't Google News already doing a decent job on this? It's going to be hard to beat the speed of Twitter or Google News in my opinion but I'll be curious to see where this goes.
- lsanger 12y agoNot really. Google doesn't summarize facts. It aggregates articles into clusters, which is useful, but it doesn't save us much time. Google also does a rather poor job of ranking the importance of stories, and often has old news for a long time and breaking news relatively late (or later than a motivated community, like Twitter, can have it).
- tyang 12y agoGoogle News' strength is ranking, not summarizing facts from different sources so you can avoid reading all the top 5 or 20 articles about a story. And, philosophically, do you HN folks really want to rely on the MSM to tell you what's important? And likes, shares and troll-ridden comments on news stories? Or do you want a democratized way to decide, collectively, what news stories and facts are important. Don't forget the NYT, etc. screwed up on no WMD's in Iraq. I was at a small group dinner with Judith Miller, ex-NYT, who's nice but she messed up. Who's checking the mainstream media?