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by marmaduke 4574 days ago
> Google News and try to train it

Does this work? Does it work better than looking through TrueTrueReddit and hubski?
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tokenadult 4574 days ago
Google News is most definitely trainable. NO WAY would I visit Reddit for news (I was an early adopter of Reddit, and with Hacker News in my portfolio of news sources already, I don't see enough value-add in trying Reddit again.)
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_wp3r 4574 days ago
It has gotten harder to train Google news due to the big uptick in the 300 word reprint practice that is playing out in media recently. Even if you manually block all the major outlets, so many sites reprint their stories that I still end up with Miley Cyrus news in my feed.
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elboru 4574 days ago
How do you do that? The only way I can think is discarding any story I'm not interested in, but how do I say, hey Google Now I liked this article?

+1?

Or how do I say: "this was a really bad article"?

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pavanred 4574 days ago
Here is a Ted talk (2011) by Eli Pariser [1] about the "filter bubble" and its unintended consequences.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu...

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