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Microsoft Plans News Aggregator
wyldeone writes "ZDNet says Microsoft is planning on creating a news aggregation service similar to Google's Google News. It will draw headlines from over 4,800 sites. It will also provide customized feeds, similar to Googles News alerts. Here is the beta version of the site."
and you're in for a surprise.
Two wrongs may not make a right, but three
at least the australian version says Beta..
The MS one is too busy, hard to follow. Whereas the Google one is as clean as can be expected for a screen with so much information and so many links.
So let me get this straight. Which beta is better? Do we really need a slashdot poll to know that answer? Didn't think so...
groklaw, wired and slashdot. The holy trinity of work based time wasting.
Have you never seen how these sites work? They don't copy the entire article onto their site. They provide a link to the original site with a short blurb. This doesn't infringe on any copyrights and, if anything, the sites are getting free advertising. In the case you link he had the information on his site. Now that doesn't necessarily mean he was infringing but you can't compare the two.
Imagine the precedent if they did. It would totally destroy the search engine industry (which is basically all this is).
... all I can say is "HA HA HA HA HA!"
See for your self. If you can read anything past the ugly blue-black-and-white font, you're a braver man than I.
Google news stories seem more interesting as well. MSNBC basically has a lot of US-related tabloid articles, while Google has some real news. An example:
World news according to MSNBC:
In contrast, Google has:
Also, Google allows you to go to country specific news feeds. I'm sorry, but MSN is going to have to do much better than this to steal my clicks. And before you argue that it's still beta, Google News had much better functionality than this before it first appeared on the Google front page.
Search for Linux in http://newsbot.msnbc.msn.com(within first 20 hits):
:)
Opinion: Why Linux isn't ready for the Desktop
Vulns: Linux Kernel Unspecified Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
Vulns: Linux Kernel Floating Point Register Contents Leak Vulnerability
Vulns: Linux VServer Project ProcFS Weak Sharing Permissions Vulnerability
Vulns: Apache mod_userdir Module Information Disclosure Vulnerability
How Microsoft Can Embrace Linux
I love biased news source. So here I'm.
Or isn't MS allowed to do that any more?
While we're waiting, why not try newsmap, which does some interesting things with Google's news feed.
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This article was posted back in Nov of '03. go figure.
Memigo is very cool with a ton of power user features. It's a fantastic site.
If you're looking for something simple and easy to use, Findory News is another good choice.