Adam Turoff <ziggy@panix.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 09:51:33AM +0100, Julian Bond wrote:- I find the Google categories a bit broad. I could well imagine them using the same technology to produce 500 channels instead of 5 and moreover making other aggregators and clipping services redundant in the process.I don't think so. A lot of the value that news.google.com provides is scouring the net for related stories on a small number of large categories. When examining thousands of news sources, clusters begin to appear, and what news.google.com is doing is showing the most current clusters in seven areas.
Maybe. As an experiment, I just followed this link from Glenn's 802.11b weblog
http://news.google.com/news?num=50&hl=en&q=802.11+OR+wifi+OR+wireless+OR+ WLAN http://news.google.com/news?q=802.11+OR+wifi+OR+WLAN&num=50&scoring=d I would love to have this as an RSS feed.[1]Pretty damn effective news when combined with a few other sources in a local aggregator.
I understood that Moreover distributed their incoming news into categories with two passes. The first is automatic, the second a human eyeball sanity check. Methinks Google could do the first pass better and maybe eliminate the second.
[1]Actually this could be built as a public scraper service pretty easily even if Google don't do it themselves. Anyone up for it?
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