[ NNSquad ] Google News at 10: How the Algorithm Won Over the News Industry

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Google News at 10: How the Algorithm Won Over the News Industry

http://j.mp/RCxxi1  (Atlantic)

   "There is, on the one hand, an incredibly simple explanation for the
    shift in news organizations' attitude toward Google: clicks. Google
    News was founded 10 years ago -- September 22, 2002 -- and has since
    functioned not merely as an aggregator of news, but also as a source
    of traffic to news sites. Google News, its executives tell me, now
    "algorithmically harvests" articles from more than 50,000 news sources
    across 72 editions and 30 languages. And Google News-powered results,
    Google says, are viewed by about 1 billion unique users a week. (Yep,
    that's billion with a b.) Which translates, for news outlets overall,
    to more than 4 billion clicks each month: 1 billion from Google News
    itself and an additional 3 billion from web search."

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--Lauren--
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