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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 18 2013 @ 09:40 PM EDT |
You are supposed to be content that Google is giving you what they
suppose most people want, ie. local news first, from local sources.
I guess you, like me, are now searching for a news aggregator that
will link to sources closest to the action, or sources known from
their history to have reliable correspondents at the scene. I don't
care that they know where I live. If their algorithms were
working for me they should know that I discount their "local"
offerings and follow links towards the incident location.
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, April 18 2013 @ 11:25 PM EDT |
Google news is fully and easily configurable. I live in
Canada, and I don't
watch the default Canadian spread. I
choose the US version with emphases on
international
stories. Beyond that I have it set up with a dozen of my
favourite categories, such as Science & Tech, and reduced
presence for
things I'm not interested in. I am very happy
with Google news, and can drill
down to get as much coverage
as I can possibly read on any story or category of
stories.
In fact, these past few nights I tried to go back to
watching
the nightly news on CBC, something that was a
tradition in my family all my
life, and I am sure, for very
many other Canadians. After the third night in a
row after
not watching the news on TV for years, I couldn't take it
any more.
I could not dictate the pace or the topics or the
depth or lack of it, and
turned it off and went back to
reading Google News. The days of watching the
nightly
newscast on TV are long gone for me, along with the home
phone that I
gave up two years ago in favour of my cell
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Authored by: jplatt39 on Friday, April 19 2013 @ 06:36 AM EDT |
I'm not the only New Englander who reads Maclean's or occasionally listens to
the CBC. You aren't missing anything reasonable by getting the news on Boston
from Canadian media. Many of us do have reservations about Google but this
coverage should NOT be one of them. Helen Mann did a good interview about the
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Authored by: JamesK on Saturday, April 20 2013 @ 03:47 PM EDT |
You can easily chose which area you want news from and even customize your
choices. If you're not happy with what they give you change what you ask for.
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