Michael Summerfield on Wed, 26 Mar 2003 06:02:29 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> Google as News Aggregator [re: ...rejects Infoshop news] |
Google's news aggregation isn't an attempt to provide balanced perspective ... they are a corporate aggregator whose news choices are driven by popularity. Aggregation, Google-style is the cold, cruel reality of majority rules [at least in the Western World's limited perspective]. Most newspapers in the world are also not providers of balanced news - they lean toward or openly advocate a political posture. It is only in the U.S. that the popular belief [not the reality, mind you] is that newspapers honorably provide full balanced disclosure and are not a puppet of the government or corporate interests. We created Globalvision News to provide a balance of sources and, as our tag line reads: "We aggregate - you decide." We don't anticipate, nor do we seek Google's aggregation of our sources. How else could we make a living if we made it all available free on Google? Besides, they don't archive and half the value of aggregating is being able to look back at what has been said. Check out the new article about us in Editor & Publisher Magazine, March 24, 2003 and online March 26th. -- Michael Summerfield Vice President Globalvision News Network www.gvnews.net Always remember you're unique ... just like everyone else. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net