{"id":159,"date":"2005-05-02T08:21:21","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T08:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2005-05-02T08:21:21","modified_gmt":"2005-05-02T08:21:21","slug":"all_the_news_thats_fit_to_list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/02\/all_the_news_thats_fit_to_list\/","title":{"rendered":"all the news that&#8217;s fit to list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has patented a system that will rank news search results by quality and credibility, instead of simply by date and relevance to keywords. See article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/channel\/info-tech\/mg18624975.900\">Google searches for quality not quantity<\/a>&#8221; in NewScientist. This recalls questions recently raised by Kim in &#8220;<a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/is_the_informat.html\">is the information any good?&#8230;don&#8217;t ask Google<\/a>.&#8221;<br \/>\nPeople have a hard time agreeing on which news is credible, but I&#8217;m hesitant to believe that machines and algorithms can do better. I worry that smaller or alternative sources will get unfairly buried in the listings. Perhaps they should try ranking for neutrality&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has patented a system that will rank news search results by quality and credibility, instead of simply by date and relevance to keywords. See article &#8220;Google searches for quality not quantity&#8221; in NewScientist. This recalls questions recently raised by Kim in &#8220;is the information any good?&#8230;don&#8217;t ask Google.&#8221; People have a hard time agreeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing-broadcast-and-the-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}