[hackuser]

> Google News isn't very good at ranking news

Is this something Infobitt evaluated or do you mean they don't rank it well for your personal needs? Also, they do provide 1-2 sentence summaries, but nothing as detailed as Infobitt.

I happen to think Google ranks news surprisingly well, though not well enough to be my primary source (I doubt any machine or group of people will beat my personally selected and organized RSS feeds), but that's only for my needs. FWIW I don't logon to Google and block most tracking so I'm not sure they customize it for me.

EDIT: Clarified first paragraph

[stevemeier853]

Google news is likely based on algorithms and big data based on user searches and the # of times articles with keywords are getting selected. Nothing wrong with that, but far short of what an informed and active community can do. The two are complementary but quite different.

[tyang]

Google News rankings are good and getting better.

Issue is these other news aggregators just link you to articles that may be the best individual source.

And you have to waste time reading an article instead of just getting the key news facts fast.