Google Planning To Serve "High Quality News" Passively 72
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.
Other News (Score:2, Funny)
In other news, Google continue to completely take over the World.
So if my most common search terms are... (Score:3, Funny)
So if my most common search terms are "boobies" and "robots"
It's going to show me NYTimes articles about just that? Sweet.
Re:I guess that Google knows what's best for us. (Score:4, Funny)
Ummm pardon me for asking but isn't that what a search engine does? Gets you what you they think you want? If someone developed a tool that gave me exactly what I wanted regardless of my syntax...sign me up and where do I buy stock?
Re:I guess that Google knows what's best for us. (Score:1, Funny)
Well great. So when boss pops by to shoot the shit & says, "Hey, punch up *super-cool-ApGizmo* for me", I have to remember not to use damn Google.
Hello, AC! Your Custom Preference Page:
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Fan... fucking-tastic
Slashdot is my news (Score:2, Funny)
WTF? (Score:5, Funny)
This to be followed by rolling out 'high-quality porn' to users who are not actively searching for porn (a small minority of google searches, to be sure.) Later, they plan to roll out V14gr4 and p3n1s enlargement ads targeted solely at women. Their new slogan: "Google... we know what you're really looking for!"
Re:I guess that Google knows what's best for us. (Score:2, Funny)
If you are doing that many personal searches at work, your boss can't be that much of an A-HOLE.
Re:Haw. (Score:3, Funny)