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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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24 September 2002 - 2:00 pm
I was intrigued by the new google news service. It's not really new technology. Today's Papers on slate does this by hand every day. Blogdex has been doing almost the exact same thing in an automated fashion for weblogs for more than a year now. And google has the technology to index all the news sites already.
What is a bit interesting is that some of the people quoted in this nytimes article seem to think that google's news service will be taking the place of real editors. Which, to me anyway, seems to indicate that they don't really understand what google is doing. Without the editors at, for example, the nytimes, google wouldn't be able to rank the news stories and decide which ones to display. So, Mr. Douglas B. Feaver, executive editor of the Washington Post, is exactly right, it's not now nor ever going to "drive [him] to the unemployment office."
Posted by on 24 September 2002 at 2:00 PM
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