Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Wired News::
"Man vs. Machine in Newsreader War
...in the future, will you find your man vs. machine story relying on a human-edited source or from an algorithm?
Standing up for the human intellect, upstart Digg is betting that its formidable legion of users can find better and more interesting news faster than any algorithm Google -- or a number of upstart companies -- can code.
'I have to admit when we first started experimenting with this a year ago, the verdict was out whether (human filtering) was a benefit or a detriment,' CEO Jay Adelson said. 'We found that it works, that it works really, really well.... We think people do a better job.'
On the machine side, the purest algorithmic news finder is Google News, which made waves in the media world when it debuted. With Google News, it's code, and not a team of editors, that decides which stories make it onto the front page.
Today Google News will even tailor the front page to your particular interests as determined by your news reading habits and search history (so long as you are willing to log in to Google with a user name).
Likewise, Tailrank, a San Francisco-based startup founded by Kevin Burton, also relies heavily on smart code to find cool stories -- not just from news outlets, but also from tens of thousands of blogs...."
"Man vs. Machine in Newsreader War
...in the future, will you find your man vs. machine story relying on a human-edited source or from an algorithm?
Standing up for the human intellect, upstart Digg is betting that its formidable legion of users can find better and more interesting news faster than any algorithm Google -- or a number of upstart companies -- can code.
'I have to admit when we first started experimenting with this a year ago, the verdict was out whether (human filtering) was a benefit or a detriment,' CEO Jay Adelson said. 'We found that it works, that it works really, really well.... We think people do a better job.'
On the machine side, the purest algorithmic news finder is Google News, which made waves in the media world when it debuted. With Google News, it's code, and not a team of editors, that decides which stories make it onto the front page.
Today Google News will even tailor the front page to your particular interests as determined by your news reading habits and search history (so long as you are willing to log in to Google with a user name).
Likewise, Tailrank, a San Francisco-based startup founded by Kevin Burton, also relies heavily on smart code to find cool stories -- not just from news outlets, but also from tens of thousands of blogs...."
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