Google News, Can't Hack It

As digital as our lifestyles get, there is just something about how we get our news that needs to remain quintessentially human. Google News, the beta system trying to challenge that hypothesis, took two hits this week.

Google News relies only on computers and algorithms to decide what headlines it will post up. The idea is that without any human intervention Google News will beat the media industry at their own wire service games. Earlier this week, however, Google has been forced to deal with a lawsuit from AFP, the French news distributor over copyright material. Google News also took some slack for posting news from National Vanguard, a publication that espouses white supremacy. Google has since removed the publication from their index.

So while Google News might be a good way to find out what the algorithms decide are the top stories of the day, there is still something to be said about the human run news industry.

posted by: DigiDave