Google Adds News Personalization

downbad writes "ZDNet is reporting that the Google News home page is now customizable, allowing you to add or delete main news categories (such as business, sports and so on), as well as increasing or decreasing the number of headlines within a section. They've also introduced a feature that lets you create your own section using keywords for a topic that interests you."

One Word

[Anonymous Coward]

They've also introduced a feature that lets you create your own section using keywords for a topic that interests you."

Porn.

Re:Yahoo's been doing this for years...

[n0dalus]

Anything as much as a difference in the atmospheric pressure around the Google campus makes the front page on slashdot.

Google has a campus?! Someone ought to submit a Slashdot story about this.

Next Week's Headline

[altek]

Google Switches to Slashcode, Hostile Takeover of Slashdot In Planning Stages ;)

Customize news.google.com for your dictatorship!

[Seumas]

New, from Google!

Tired of unfiltered news from the democratic infodels of the world cluttering the mindset of your nation's population? Worry no more!

With only a few clicks of the mouse, you can customize the news categories, topics, outlets and reporters that you wish to be provided to your nation. Even better, use our genius inline search and replace system that lets you manipulate simple regexes to substitute chosen phrases with your own!

Just another service from your friends at Google!

(Well, it's an idea...!)

Re:Yahoo's been doing this for years...

[weierstrass]

They breathe air at Google?

Re:Saw it this morning

[lucabrasi999]

US News, Canadian News

Isn't that pretty much the same thing?

Sorry, couldn't resist. :)

NO MORE SPORTS!!!

[doublem]

YES! Now I can at long last get rid of that stupid, pointless Sports category!!

WAHOOO!!!

When can I customize

[Anonymous Coward]

the news itself. Like Bill Gates switches to KDE with Firefox

Can you title your page?

[mntgomery]

If so, you can just add keywords "Google", "Apple" and "Linux" and call it Slashdot.

Re:NO MORE SPORTS!!!

[RobotRunAmok]

YES! Now I can at long last get rid of that stupid, pointless Sports category!!

Right On!! With the time you save not having to pagedown past the Sports Section, you'll have more time to write in your blog!

Doesn't work AT ALL

[doublem]

Don't bother. I tried. All you get are stories about Jacko and guys with similar interests.

I added categories for "Heidi Fleiss", "Anna Nicole Smith" and "Tonya Harding" which accomplishes the same thing I'd LIKE a "Porn" category to accomplish, but avoids nasty topics that are very bad for my libido.

Re:Why?

[pilkul]

To assume that /. does not have some system of quid-pro-quo in place to ensure front-page story placement for a client, especially given all the non-Google/EFF slashvertisements, is bizarrely naive.

Marge: Do you want your son to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court or a sleazy male stripper?
Homer: Can't he be both, like the late Earl Warren?
Marge: Earl Warren wasn't a stripper!
Homer: Now, who's being naive?

Re:Next Week's Headline

[SpongeBobLinuxPants]

Tomorrow's headline:

Google Adds News Personalization