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Water Cooler / Algo News
« on: March 02, 2016, 11:51:01 AM »
I suppose I'm stating the obvious here but I see the need for a real human editor vs. relying on an algorithm to sort your news pages.
What I wanted, this morning was a state by state breakdown of who won what in the US primaries and by how much. Chart would be nice but text would do. I didn't want to watch videos from the networks, I didn't want op/ed pieces, blogs or drama puff pieces - "just the facts Ma'am, just the facts".
It took over 10 minutes of scud hunting on Yahoo news and Bing news to find it. Finally found on Bing. Yes I could have searched, but my thinking is slow until the first cup of coffee kicks in. Yahoo was hopeless, Bing did deliver but it was buried. Yahoo allegedly "learns" what your preferences are by what you read but I tend to click on bizarre stuff so I'm getting news about weirdness in NKorea, what the cast of "Green Acres" is doing now (they're dead) and archaeology instead of election stuff. I've probably permanently corrupted poor Yahoo news. I have no idea what Bing does with click data.
RC quit laughing.
What I wanted, this morning was a state by state breakdown of who won what in the US primaries and by how much. Chart would be nice but text would do. I didn't want to watch videos from the networks, I didn't want op/ed pieces, blogs or drama puff pieces - "just the facts Ma'am, just the facts".
It took over 10 minutes of scud hunting on Yahoo news and Bing news to find it. Finally found on Bing. Yes I could have searched, but my thinking is slow until the first cup of coffee kicks in. Yahoo was hopeless, Bing did deliver but it was buried. Yahoo allegedly "learns" what your preferences are by what you read but I tend to click on bizarre stuff so I'm getting news about weirdness in NKorea, what the cast of "Green Acres" is doing now (they're dead) and archaeology instead of election stuff. I've probably permanently corrupted poor Yahoo news. I have no idea what Bing does with click data.
RC quit laughing.