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Mapping Google News

Posted by timothy on from the that-hansel-he's-so-hot-right-now dept.

CousinLarry writes "A neat project called Buzztracker.org has been mining Google News for over a year and keeping track of relationships between geographic locations mentioned in articles. The results are some really cool maps that actually seem to reflect the "buzz" of the day - check out the Vatican clusters from earlier this month, or the global New Year's chatter. You can also dig down into the articles from which the maps were generated."

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  1. Re:Definitely on the Nifty List by FuturePastNow · · Score: 5, Informative

    This site has another list, of the sources Google News uses (something Google refuse to publish). Also an interesting use of data mining.

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