Google News to improve on breaking news
Krishna Bharat, the developer of Google News, says the site will soon have a better response to breaking news. "Google News was originally intended as a tool to put together diversity of opinions beyond who, what, where. We are addressing the problem and soon we hope to be able to have a much fresher response to breaking news," he tells OJR.He also explains why the site includes press releases (which at times have been the lead item): "Press releases we don't consider to be a news source, that's for sure. Historically, we started out with a search where we believe all information is good to make accessible to people.... I don't want to go and police all the news out there. I've seen lots of articles where the press release appears verbatim. Do we wait for that to show up hours late, or do we allow people to use it and act on it -- especially when it's a business item?
"There are no press releases on the browsable pages or news pages. We have a higher editorial responsibility on those because we're telling you where you should look. On the news pages, we do not intend to use press releases. We would never do anything to compromise the objectivity of the product. We don't even show advertising … we do this because we think it's useful. Making a press release available as part of the search results gives the full facts that were available to the reporter when they wrote it."
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1 comments about 'Google News to improve on breaking news'It is really a good development. Because Krishna is doing what the print and other media is not even tryiying to do!!
Keep it up Krishna!!!
Posted by Beluru Sudarshana at September 26, 2003 11:29 AM
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