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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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If 90% of the press is left leaning, no surprise that 90% of journalists lean left, high and low quality alike.

Um, no, that's not the reason. The people that choose to become journalists often do it for idealistic reasons. They want to enlighten the public about issues they care about. Palestine, for example. Right-wing people generally don't have that many issues they want to tell people about. Everybody already knows how high their taxes are, no journalism needed.

Let me assure you right wing people have as many issues they want to tell people about as left wing people. You might not like them or consider them idealistic, but they do. To be blunt, your comment comes off like you live in a left wing enclave and you have no real human experience with people with differing believes. Which is funny, because that is also how modern journalism comes off - privileged white rich kids at liberal schools who then shuttle down to the equally liberal newsroom, never interacting with half the country.

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

The reason is Google probably has 100x the money, and 1000x the expertise. I love DuckDuckGo for their no-following and no-tracking you policy. I admire that and want to support them. But yet, I know that many, many of the queries are usually yield far better results on Google. I'm just hoping that with time and enough people using DuckDuckGo, it will get a lot better.

Possibly more data too. AI + more data = more useful results.

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If anyone has the Pocket browser extension installed, they'll notice that Pocket automatically adds some featured (and maybe personalized?) stories to a new blank Google Chrome web page, right below the search field.

I used to think this was obnoxious. Then I started clicking on the articles. Now, I like this feature. It surfaces articles that I otherwise might have missed.

So I could see this working with Google, if they do it right. And perhaps they should offer a way to turn it off for users who prefer a simple UI.

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I can think of several common opinions surrounding Islam, gender and culture that the Guardian would not publish today. So I don't believe its as liberal as you say.

If you are making these statements, you need to identify the things you think will not be published. It's very easy to whip out an accusation like "This would never be published" if you never say what "this" is.

I'd love to specifically describe what wouldn't be published. However, last time I wrote about one of them on HN I was very quickly flagged.

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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....

Time for a new search engine maybe? Duckduckgo seems like the obvious alternative search engine these days, but how much of their own indexing do they do? It seems from some casual googling (no, the irony of that is not lost on me) that they mostly rely on Bing or Yahoo as the backend. Some thoughts: Search engines should be a lot easier to build in 2017 than they were two decades ago when Google started out. We don'…

There are some other search engines out there that do have their own index already.

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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....

Time for a new search engine maybe? Duckduckgo seems like the obvious alternative search engine these days, but how much of their own indexing do they do? It seems from some casual googling (no, the irony of that is not lost on me) that they mostly rely on Bing or Yahoo as the backend. Some thoughts: Search engines should be a lot easier to build in 2017 than they were two decades ago when Google started out. We don'…

Taking market share from Google based on search alone would require something even more revolutionary than what google brought to the table x-years ago.

Also, don't google have loads more ranking algorithms than just pagerank?

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I think they weren't being precise and just meant how the app will look, which some people might equate with google.com itself. I don't see any reason to believe it would affect the site.

Perhaps the BBC spoke to someone at Google who said the news feed would be available via the web – à la https://news.google.com or https://newsstand.google.com/ – which the reporter misunderstood to mean Google.com itself would display the news feed? It just seems anomalous that such a great change would be announced with so little fanfare (a single sentence in the article). I need to see confirmation before I believ…

Update: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/07/google-denies-claims...

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

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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…

> Is there a reason most of the MSM attacks Trump's credibility on a daily basis? 1. He's the most powerful head of state on the planet. 2. He's demonstrably not fit for the job. 3. IT'S THEIR DAMN JOB.

1. Yes 2. By your criteria 3. Their job is to inform the public, not to make things up

I don't even like the man, yet I am compelled to defend him against what I see as a greater injustice.

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