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Google Adds News Personalization

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-doesn't-it-do dept.

downbad writes "ZDNet is reporting that the Google News home page is now customizable, allowing you to add or delete main news categories (such as business, sports and so on), as well as increasing or decreasing the number of headlines within a section. They've also introduced a feature that lets you create your own section using keywords for a topic that interests you."

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  1. One Word by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    They've also introduced a feature that lets you create your own section using keywords for a topic that interests you."

    Porn.

  2. Re:Yahoo's been doing this for years... by n0dalus · · Score: 1, Funny

    Anything as much as a difference in the atmospheric pressure around the Google campus makes the front page on slashdot.

    Google has a campus?! Someone ought to submit a Slashdot story about this.

  3. Next Week's Headline by altek · · Score: 4, Funny

    Google Switches to Slashcode, Hostile Takeover of Slashdot In Planning Stages ;)

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    1. Re:Next Week's Headline by SpongeBobLinuxPants · · Score: 3, Funny

      Tomorrow's headline:

      Google Adds News Personalization

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  4. Customize news.google.com for your dictatorship! by Seumas · · Score: 5, Funny

    New, from Google!

    Tired of unfiltered news from the democratic infodels of the world cluttering the mindset of your nation's population? Worry no more!

    With only a few clicks of the mouse, you can customize the news categories, topics, outlets and reporters that you wish to be provided to your nation. Even better, use our genius inline search and replace system that lets you manipulate simple regexes to substitute chosen phrases with your own!

    Just another service from your friends at Google!

    (Well, it's an idea...!)

  5. Re:Yahoo's been doing this for years... by weierstrass · · Score: 2, Funny

    They breathe air at Google?

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  6. Re:Saw it this morning by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 2, Funny
    US News, Canadian News

    Isn't that pretty much the same thing?

    Sorry, couldn't resist. :)

  7. NO MORE SPORTS!!! by doublem · · Score: 2, Funny

    YES! Now I can at long last get rid of that stupid, pointless Sports category!!

    WAHOOO!!!

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    1. Re:NO MORE SPORTS!!! by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 4, Funny

      YES! Now I can at long last get rid of that stupid, pointless Sports category!!

      Right On!! With the time you save not having to pagedown past the Sports Section, you'll have more time to write in your blog!

  8. When can I customize by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    the news itself. Like Bill Gates switches to KDE with Firefox

  9. Can you title your page? by mntgomery · · Score: 3, Funny

    If so, you can just add keywords "Google", "Apple" and "Linux" and call it Slashdot.

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  10. Doesn't work AT ALL by doublem · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't bother. I tried. All you get are stories about Jacko and guys with similar interests.

    I added categories for "Heidi Fleiss", "Anna Nicole Smith" and "Tonya Harding" which accomplishes the same thing I'd LIKE a "Porn" category to accomplish, but avoids nasty topics that are very bad for my libido.

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  11. Re:Why? by pilkul · · Score: 2, Funny
    To assume that /. does not have some system of quid-pro-quo in place to ensure front-page story placement for a client, especially given all the non-Google/EFF slashvertisements, is bizarrely naive.

    Marge: Do you want your son to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court or a sleazy male stripper?
    Homer: Can't he be both, like the late Earl Warren?
    Marge: Earl Warren wasn't a stripper!
    Homer: Now, who's being naive?