Feb 07 2008
Google takes on local news
Feed aggregators like Netvibes make it easy for anyone to build and use a customized online news service, tailored to your own interests. Now Google is fine tuning a local news search tool. According to the Google News Blog:
While we’re not the first news site to aggregate local news, we’re doing it a bit differently — we’re able to create a local section for any city, state or country in the world and include thousands of sources. We’re not simply looking at the byline or the source, but instead we analyze every word in every story to understand what location the news is about and where the source is located.
Here’s a sample search result for Portland
Compare that to local news sites OregonLive, LocalNewsDaily and KGW
What do you think? Is there added value to the search of “thousands of sources”? How will local media be affected?