Monday, May 02, 2005
Google guarantees leftist bias.
Google is preparing a new 'reliability check' on news services. The process will examine size of company, how long the company has been in business, number of news bureaus, number of bylines on articles, and similar measures, to give an overall reliability index. This will supposedly be more useful than the current sorting by direct use of phrase and by date. [Reported in 4/30/05 issue of New Scientist mag.]
Disingenuous and sneaky.
If we were talking about cars or pharmaceuticals, company size and age would be valid measures of reliability. A company gets to be big and old by keeping its customers. A big old manufacturer also has more resources and 'corporate memory' to aid in research. News is a peculiar business, though. The older firms are known to be the most orthodox followers of Party line, and the only reputation that counts is theLenin Pulitzer Prize.
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Google is preparing a new 'reliability check' on news services. The process will examine size of company, how long the company has been in business, number of news bureaus, number of bylines on articles, and similar measures, to give an overall reliability index. This will supposedly be more useful than the current sorting by direct use of phrase and by date. [Reported in 4/30/05 issue of New Scientist mag.]
Disingenuous and sneaky.
If we were talking about cars or pharmaceuticals, company size and age would be valid measures of reliability. A company gets to be big and old by keeping its customers. A big old manufacturer also has more resources and 'corporate memory' to aid in research. News is a peculiar business, though. The older firms are known to be the most orthodox followers of Party line, and the only reputation that counts is the
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