Google Planning To Serve "High Quality News" Passively

krou writes "The Wrap has an interesting interview with Eric Schmidt on Google's new plan for news. Google is apparently planning on rolling out 'high-quality news' to users who are not actively searching for news. It's expected to launch in approximately six months' time, and the first two news organizations to be involved will be The New York Times and The Washington Post. 'Under this latest iteration of advanced search, users will be automatically served the kind of news that interests them just by calling up Google's page. The latest algorithms apply ever more sophisticated filtering — based on search words, user choices, purchases, a whole host of cues — to determine what the reader is looking for without knowing they're looking for it. And on this basis, Google believes it will be able to sell premium ads against premium content.' Although Schmidt said that companies like the New York Times won't get any of this ad revenue, he commented that it will push stories to users who want them, drive up traffic to those stories, and in turn bring higher advertising rates for those stories." As VentureBeat points out, Google hasn't officially confirmed any of this, and with no ad revenue going to the other companies, it only partially addresses complaints that Google is profiting unfairly from the work of news publications.

Comments

Not just typo

[Rayeth]

Grammar error in summary too: "Google is apparently planning on rolling out 'high-quality news' to users who not actively searching for news." There should be an "are" after who, I believe.

Re:Not just typo

[iamhigh]

No, that is a typo. Grammar errors would be actual misuse of the language, not simply forgetting a word. Also why the fuck does someone tag with typoinsummary? You know we're gonna point it out in the comments. Why not use that tag for something useful that can aid in searching articles and what not. Pedantic bastards.

Re:Not just typo

[t3sser4ct]

Why not use that tag for something useful that can aid in searching articles and what not. Pedantic bastards.

I think having such technical tags such as "typoinsummary" can be handy for analysis. It's kind of hard to think of an example right now, but it seems to me that being able to search through thousands of summaries and instantly identifying which of them contains (or contained) an error could indeed be useful in some cases.

Re:Not just typo

[thePowerOfGrayskull]

Why not use that tag for something useful that can aid in searching articles and what not. Pedantic bastards.

I think having such technical tags such as "typoinsummary" can be handy for analysis. It's kind of hard to think of an example right now, but it seems to me that being able to search through thousands of summaries and instantly identifying which of them contains (or contained) an error could indeed be useful in some cases.

Maybe it's my imagination, but it seems that the number of duplicate posts has gone way down since we gained the ability to tag posts as "dupe".

Re:Not just typo

[thePowerOfGrayskull]

Ha haaa, another four mod points wasted! (I can do this all day, but you only have one point left...)

That said, my post was perfectly on-topic to this post which I was replying to. Unless I prefix them with "OT:", they always are. I was, of course, assuming that the reader had the wit to extrapolate out the point I was trying to make: perhaps the presence of these tags helps to improve the overall quality of submissions.

Re:weeee!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

I much prefer having sex with Linus Torvalds over Richard Stallman. With Richard Stallman he always wants to call things GNU/Anal sex or GNU/blowjob and he requires you to give him a GNU/reacharound but won't reciprocate. Linus on the other hand will go balls to the wall and not only suck you off but swallow!

Re:I guess that Google knows what's best for us.

[Anonymous Coward]

Fucking moron.