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Microsoft Developing News Sorting Based On Political Bias

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the next-measure-the-magnitude-of-political-affiliation dept.

wiredog writes "The Washington Post is reporting that Microsoft is developing a program that classifies news stories according to whether liberal or conservative bloggers are linking to them and also measures the 'emotional intensity' based on the frequency of keywords in the blog posts." If you would like to jump right to the tool you can check out "Blews" on the Microsoft site.

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  1. This just in... by Justabit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft is the best software maker in the world! ..and now to Jeff for the weather..

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  2. I can't be the only one tagging as "blows" by StonedYoda47 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Come on, that's just too obvious a joke for /.

  3. Re:How about something useful.... by calebt3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Like emacs vs. vim?

  4. False Positive by ShawnCplus · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can guarantee there are going to be some false positives in links to blogs about people loving bush

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  5. Re:Perfect... by psychodelicacy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please, please don't do that. Treat us as real people and react to what we're saying instead of the potential that we have breasts. Please?

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  6. Re:Perfect... by superwiz · · Score: 3, Funny

    Some people with an opposing viewpoint might word it in a reasonable manner. That's probably why it ticks him off.
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  7. Re:Oh come on. by martin-boundary · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't knock the Big Mac. The Economist has been leveraging it for years as an economic oracle, and everybody tries to be on their front cover, even Britney Spears. So who are you to contradict them?

  8. And the others say it sucks.... by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now this exactly the sort of bias that this thing finds: republic vs democratic, yin vs yang, sucks vs blows.

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  9. new technology by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 2, Funny

    In other news, the democrats, with the inventor of the Internet, developed a system that automatically makes any republican text display in white on a white background, so that it is impossible to read.

    Let's test this software:

    In a meeting today, Bush said, "




    ."

    See, the system is working.

  10. Re:Perfect... by The+One+and+Only · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorting all news into one thing or another is just an extension of this mentality, and it is harmful. Would you tolerate it if they sorted it into Black News and White News? Or into News for Women, and News for Men? Put the gardening and housekeeping on News for Women, and the tech and business stuff on News for Men...

    And before long we'll have News for Nerds!

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  11. I guess this means... by dwarfsoft · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess this means that we can expect some form of "Blews" Screen of Death

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  12. Re:They took the money by symbolset · · Score: 2, Funny

    Replyiing twice to the same post is bad form but I feel I must.

    Once I was employed at a major chip vendor's technology development lab that was being downsized. A coworker suggested I might find work at Microsoft.

    My reply: My local septic tank cleaning company has openings too. I will try them first. At least it's honest work.

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