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Google News Gets Its First Human Editors Ever

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First Posted: 06/11/10 03:22 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 05:45 PM ET

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Google News is experimenting with human news curation.

Editors from a "small set" of partner news organizations started curating Google News yesterday, Megan Garber at Nieman Journalism Lab reports.

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Google News is experimenting with human news curation. Editors from a "small set" of partner news organizations started curating Google News yesterday, Megan Garber at Nieman Journalism Lab reports. ...
Google News is experimenting with human news curation. Editors from a "small set" of partner news organizations started curating Google News yesterday, Megan Garber at Nieman Journalism Lab reports. ...
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Kache
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07:38 PM on 06/11/2010
This does not change the fact that a pajama blogger in London gets passed off by Google News as the most relevant news website for articles on Venezuela just because the blogger, Aleksander Boyd, figured out that all he needed was to change the last modified date on the page every 5 minutes to trick Google into thinking that meant fresh news.
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05:37 PM on 06/11/2010
That's only if you don't count blocking certain websites from showing up on google's news pages as 'editing'.
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