[SyneRyder]

I think it's an interesting idea, but I'm rarely interested in news about a specific location (except when a particular incident / tragedy has happened). For local news, I tend to go read my local newspaper websites, and Google News already aggregates local articles anyway for me in their Local News section.

However - I am looking for a Google News replacement, as it keeps showing me gossip, entertainment and snarky news, no matter how many times I click "fewer stories like this". They used to have a feature where you could block news providers (eg never show me news from TMZ), and also choose my preferred news sources (eg I could choose The Verge & Bloomberg) and it would rank their version of the story highest. That was very useful while it worked. You could also add topics that you were interested in, so if I added "Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor", it would rank news stories about Nine Inch Nails more highly so that I would see them. (I would really like to be able to blacklist topics/keywords too.)

If somebody made a news aggregator like this, I'd love to switch away from Google News.

[guybedo]

Hey, i'm a little late but i've been working on something that you might find interesting. I've been using RSS readers for quite some time but wanted to have an app that would combine rss feeds and GoogleNews-like news aggregation. So i built https://aktu.io, It's a mix between a RSS reader and a news aggregator, so you can think of it as an all-in-one Google Reader + Google News web app. It's still an early version and doesn't have all the features of Google News (yet) but i would love to have your feedback !

[zack2018]

Thanks for the feedback, those are all good suggestions, much appreciated :)