Do people even visit google.com anymore? I just type in the address bar of browsers.
Google to add 'news feed' to website and app
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#32Interesting. On first glance I was thinking the article was pertaining to Google Plus.
It was talking about the website after all - "Google is adding a personalised Facebook-style news feed to its homepage - Google.com".
This made it a lot interesting. Google Plus doesn't seem to be making it in our country. But Google Search has been here for a long time. The front end of it didn't change much for as long as I can remember. (The back end though seem to be mutating like a monster.)
I wonder how they're planning to target who sees what kind of content. But I think they pretty much have enough data gathered from all the email accounts and search results that everyone has been feeding them.
Looking forward to this update and more importantly how people will react to it.
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#3320 years ago, all the engines (AltaVista, Lycos) did exactly that. And then they all became "portal" like. And then a brand new engine with just a search box (so refreshing so clean) came along and swiped them over....
The difference is personalization. I never would visit a portal site like yahoo, but every morning I look through my Google Now feed. Relevance matters.
You could actually customize excite.com a great deal. You could choose your stocks, your weather with a zipcode. You could make a box with your favorite links, you could drag around the various boxes and news feeds, add RSS links. The whole deal. It wasn't personalized content created automatically based on your search history though.
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#3420 years ago, all the engines (AltaVista, Lycos) did exactly that. And then they all became "portal" like. And then a brand new engine with just a search box (so refreshing so clean) came along and swiped them over....
The difference is personalization. I never would visit a portal site like yahoo, but every morning I look through my Google Now feed. Relevance matters.
Yahoo's portal is personalized (but not explicitly so).
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#35Really, Google, all I want is my search-oriented "plus" operator back, and for you to unfuck search. I would have bought into the other Plus, your social network, but you fucked over your base product (search) during its launch, and then went all "real names" et al. on us.
If you click on Tools and then change "All Results" to "Verbatim", then it behaves a bit more like it used to
I can't find this on Google.com - is it just in the App ?
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#36It's hard to believe this is going to happen to google.com Google is, if nothing else, obsessed with metrics; unless they'd A/B/... tested this to death , there is zero chance they'll roll it out to their homepage. I can't believe it, and it's not mentioned anywhere on their blog post. To be fair, most people probably search from the chrome toolbar now, but even so, I imagine at most, we'll see a staged roll out to a…
Most "normal" people I observe either type in google.com, use a separate search box, or click a bookmark that goes to google.com.
Rarely do I see them searching using the url box. That's where web addresses go silly!
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#37The "newsfeed" pattern is one of the worst ideas humanity has ever had. Never has it been so easy to manipulate public opinion at will. 10 years ago there was a such thing as standards in journalism. Now anypoliticalblog.com's headline has been promoted to the equal status of an actual news organisation by means of the implicit legitimacy of appearing in a news feed. This insanity has reached a crescendo with the off…
Let's not forget that standard media diet includes Fox News and One America Network (which has ~15% the viewer count of Fox News). Old media isn't necessarily great at filtering out nonsense. Though I agree that the newsfeed tends to put these things next to the NYT or the Guardian, I feel like "page rank"-y stuff could help smooth this out. I've already seen improvements to my FB newsfeed for this kind of stuff over…
As a longtime Guardian reader, I'd be careful about implicitly declaring the Guardian as any more "legitimate" than anyone else.
Can't speak on the topic of NYT, but at least in the case of the Guardian, it's clearly lowered its standards over the last several years to find a market.
(I still read it, but it's slowly becoming a left-wing Daily Mail cough Owen Jones cough, which is really disappointing).
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#38Didn't they try basically this before, then had it fail and discontinue in the form of iGoogle(2005-2013)? The idea of google going back to that is just nuts. At least DuckDuckGo has got the search page concept right.
This seems to auto-populate which is different, and is far simpler. iGoogle was widget based and relied on you to pick the info sources.
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#39Google's blog post talks about introducing the newsfeed to the Google app, but I don't see any mention of Google.com: https://www.blog.google/products/search/feed-your-need-know/ Anyone know where the BBC found this confirmation?
The iPhone app has it already.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let's not forget that standard media diet includes Fox News and One America Network (which has ~15% the viewer count of Fox News). Old media isn't necessarily great at filtering out nonsense. Though I agree that the newsfeed tends to put these things next to the NYT or the Guardian, I feel like "page rank"-y stuff could help smooth this out. I've already seen improvements to my FB newsfeed for this kind of stuff over…
As a longtime Guardian reader, I'd be careful about implicitly declaring the Guardian as any more "legitimate" than anyone else. Can't speak on the topic of NYT, but at least in the case of the Guardian, it's clearly lowered its standards over the last several years to find a market. (I still read it, but it's slowly becoming a left-wing Daily Mail cough Owen Jones cough , which is really disappointing).
That recent article about the rebellious self-owned Greek factory was case in point.
Great story, but the journalism was lacking significantly.