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Google to add 'news feed' to website and app

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Re: Google to add 'news feed' to website and app

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Post by Terr_ »

Jaruzel wrote: post #35
empressplay wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ?

From the search-results page, there's a "Tools" button which exposes a bar containing "Any Time, All Results". Click "All Results" and it exposes "Verbatim" as another choice.

There might be a more-permanent way to set it if you are logged-in, but I don't usually do that for Google for privacy reasons.

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Post by spookyuser »

verytrivial wrote: post #60
spookyuser wrote: post #52

Dear God. I can barely handle the news snippets that have started appearing in Google Now, I'm actually really close to disabling the entire thing because of them. I guess this means they're not going away anytime soon.

I disabled them after about a day and I don't feel like I'm missing anything. I have about as much respect for news/trivia noise as the ads you hear in call hold music.

Please tell me how? Is there a way to disable them without disabling google now?

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Post by abritinthebay »

atupis wrote: post #49
SkyMarshal wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone already did it! https://duckduckgo.com/

Some weird reason duckduckgo usually gives worse search results than google.

Because they don’t track you so can’t make assumptions about what you want/mean.

Trade offs.

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Post by beambot »

If only there was a system to create "feeds" of website entries (such as news sites), aggregate them, and then read them at our discretion. Then we could each create our own personal Google homepage.

Google could brand such an offering as "Google reader" and "Google personalized homepage"...

(For those who don't remember: these both used to be a thing!)

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Post by hyperdunc »

aphextron wrote: post #11

The "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…

"Actual news organizations" don't exist in the sense we'd like. They're all agenda driven and constantly lie by omission.

Breitbart is shamelessly pro-Trump. They will publish stories that others won't but also won't publish anything counter to their narrative.

The Guardian, which someone else mentioned, is massively left-leaning and is also very selective about what they cover. Their articles are often poorly thought out and extremely regressive.

Both sources are poison if taken in isolation, without the antidote of the other.

The MSM have earned the lack of trust they receive. Anyone who wants to end up receiving an approximation of overall truth will consume a variety of sources with different biases.

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Post by headmelted »

abakker wrote: post #48
BigJono wrote: post #44

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Yep, I read the Guardian's Australian edition every now and then and some of their stuff is absolute rubbish. I'd love to know what the go-to center-left news source is over here. So far I haven't found it...

bloomberg.com, I think. Many of their articles border on totally apolitical. edit to add: their core business isn't actually selling ads on news articles, which also helps quite a bit.

That's quite interesting to me.

I was always under the impression that Bloomberg was the non-WWE version of CNBC (i.e. primarily markets news, without Cramer's hysterics).

Will have to check it out again if its got broader coverage than I realized. Thanks for the tip!

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Post by pjc50 »

thomyorkie wrote: post #26
pesenti wrote: post #9

20 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.

Does anyone else remember the personalisable "iGoogle"?

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Post by Arlene90 »

headmelted wrote: post #67
abakker wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

bloomberg.com, I think. Many of their articles border on totally apolitical. edit to add: their core business isn't actually selling ads on news articles, which also helps quite a bit.

That's quite interesting to me. I was always under the impression that Bloomberg was the non-WWE version of CNBC (i.e. primarily markets news, without Cramer's hysterics). Will have to check it out again if its got broader coverage than I realized. Thanks for the tip!

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Re: Google to add 'news feed' to website and app

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Post by hyperdunc »

aphextron wrote: post #46
BigJono wrote: post #41

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> 10 years ago there was a such thing as standards in journalism Was there? Because last I checked all that these so called 'reputable' sources of news seem to put out is biased garbage full of misleading data and often blatant lies. I've seen better journalism from bloody buzzfeed than I have from some of the "proper" news networks in Australia...

>Was there? Because last I checked all that these so called 'reputable' sources of news seem to put out is biased garbage full of misleading data and often blatant lies. The inculcation of this sentiment is precisely the effect I'm referring to. The waters have become so muddied with nonsense that no one can tell right from wrong anymore. And thus, actual news organizations with trained reporters and fact checkers an…

Is there a reason most of the MSM attacks Trump's credibility on a daily basis?

The reasons are ratings and political ideology. They know that a lot of people hate Trump so they attack him. Any evidence of wrongdoing on Trump's part is merely a happy extra for the MSM.

If Obama did the same things that Trump does, do you think the MSM would behave the same way?

The MSM have cried wolf so many times that now half the country will not listen if they actually find something solid against Trump.

Whatever your position on Trump, it's hard to think of the MSM as being driven by actual journalism. And that's a real shame for the small number of journalists in the MSM who actually have integrity.

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