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What's Next For Google News

Posted by kdawson on from the love-the-traffic-but dept.

Stony Stevenson writes in with a Computerworld interview with a Google product manager talking about what's coming up for Google News, such as the possible addition of a video component and closer cooperation with YouTube. "One of Google's most popular and controversial services, Google News, is the aggregation and search site that media companies love to hate because it has become a major source of Web traffic and frustrations for many of them.... 'In an ideal world, Google News would show you who broke the story and the other articles that built on that. There are places where we're not doing that perfectly today.'"

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  1. Good and Bad by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Finding the links and publishing who really got the scoop and who were the followers might seem like a good idea. But already there is such a great rush to publish, such a system will give more incentives to "publish first verify later" attitude.

    May be Google could maintain the records of false reports, reports that were later corrected etc and come up with a "trustability" coefficient for the reporters and reporting organizations. This will probably give some incentives to verify the reports.

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  2. Quality over quantity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't care who broke a story first. What I want is the story that covers the event best.

  3. Re:EPIC by rockout · · Score: 5, Funny
    Are you kidding me? I'm supposed to listen to that entire thing? I want my predictions of media-in-the-future presented to me in easily digested 30-second sound bites, dammit.

    In fact, I've already lost interest in typing th

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