Interview with the creator of Google News

Because we get 100,000 articles a day. A human editor couldn’t read that many. We have people who try to create an aggregate of what’s been done in the media on a given topic and they write a report about it. Journalists do that all the time, and they do an extremely good job. But imagine doing that for every story in the world, every time. We want to give you speed in addition to timeliness.

He goes follows up with this

I want this to be a force for a democracy. I want us to be an honest broker, and I want newspapers featured on our site to get traffic from us. … There’s never been a more controversial time on the planet. I think it’s great to be a news source at this point because there’s so much hunger for news. You see a lot more diversity in the news coverage on our site than on others. I think the diversity is a mirror to the diversity of opinion there is worldwide. One of the things that makes us objective is we show all points of view. Even if you disagree with one, we give you both — the majority and the minority point of view. The ones you don’t agree with are education. It’s nice to know what the other side is thinking. You’ll see left-leaning ones as much as much as you see right-leaning ones. Frankly, the software doesn’t know the difference between left and right, which is good.

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