Google news is hot right now. (See CNet’s story.) Not sure how I feel, as an editor and all, about a “front page” that declares, “This page was generated entirely by computer algorithms without human editors. No humans were harmed or even used in the creation of this page.” (Google’s sense of humor remains intact.) For the moment it’s an interesting experiment. Useful, challenging our expectations, but not any kind of replacement for the human-edited front page. Google’s engineers are smart, though; this is a beta. Who knows how far they can take it? Nick Denton’s critique is worth pondering: he observes that Google’s algorithm fails to give “exclusives” their due.
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