Google Adds News Personalization 242
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."
Whats your custom section? (Score:2, Interesting)
Business Direction (Score:4, Interesting)
However, they won't be able to do so without becoming an ISP. So the question is, where and when will Google break into the ISP market so they can capture a gauranteed customer base to compete with Yahoo and MSN?
Is there a likely company for Google to partner with?
Share preferences (Score:5, Interesting)
Presumably, the code provided in the URL is a reference to a great big lookup table that they keep with everybody's preferences (custom search terms, layout etc). I have set up lots of custom search terms, and the URL is certainly not long enough to contain them all.
ok (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Google devotion (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Being a mobile user I love the text only option (Score:3, Interesting)
It's a shame this only works for web searching, not Groups or News. News returns a file too big error, even with the text-only version you mentioned. Is there a way to get a mini-version of the news site as well?
Requires you to have cookies turned on (Score:1, Interesting)
Hence, they can track what you read.
Alternate reason? (Score:3, Interesting)
I mean, Google (or MSN, Yahoo or whoever does this sort of thing) should be able to find out some "personal preferences" of people depending on how they sort their news website, what they filter out and so on.
Even worse, are they using this to personalize Google Ads?
They missed: NO subscription/registration (Score:4, Interesting)
I'd like to filter out all the sites that require some sort of registration to view them.
If Google did that and made it prominant, a lot
of those sites might change their policy since
poeple would be ignoring them. If not, then too bad
for them.
Epic just got closer to truth (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Support for Opera (Score:3, Interesting)
Let's see...Google maps was unveiled on February 8. Opera (and Safari) support was added on February 28. Oh yeah, that's a horrendously long time...
Re:Saw it this morning (Score:2, Interesting)
The first thing I did was think "yeah, this could be a really cool way to compare news bias..."
So I added two sections side by side: one from the UK "World News" section, and the other from the US "World News" section.
Top stories in the UK World News were
and yet neither story was mentioned on the US side. The top story in the US world news was:
Does this mean that as an advertising company, Google could be in danger of falling prey to the advertising pressures that rule the traditional US news media? Draw your own conclusions, I guess....