{"id":583,"date":"2009-10-22T09:31:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T16:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/?p=583"},"modified":"2009-10-22T09:31:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T16:31:22","slug":"google-oversearch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"Google oversearch"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve just read that Google has signed an agreement with Twitter to include tweets in their search results<\/a>.\u00a0 Now, I think Google has done some pretty clever things so far such as Google Maps.\u00a0 But while I have no problem with Google adding features like this to their search engine, it doesn’t mean I want to use it.\u00a0 The fact that there are literally millions of mindless automatons following the leader and wasting valuable time with the stupidity of Twitter does not affect me – I don’t use it and don’t want it considered when searching for information.\u00a0 So I wonder if Google will allow me to limit my searches to not include tweets in the results.\u00a0 I doubt it.\u00a0 And the reason I doubt it comes from my use of Google News.<\/p>\n

Long ago I setup and started using Google News as a general news aggregator.\u00a0 It works well enough and I’ve been fairly happy with it.\u00a0 But I often get headlines from Fox News included in the aggregated headlines.\u00a0 I don’t believe Fox News is a real news organization but rather a propoganda outlet for the political right, who I don’t happen to agree with.\u00a0 So I want to filter my aggregated headlines to not include Fox News.\u00a0 But Google doesn’t allow this.\u00a0 And requests to them to add this feature have gone with out replies.<\/p>\n

So now I see a new market emerging:\u00a0 custom aggregation based on a users view of the world.\u00a0 You filter the places you want to get news from – get it all from the start but then ban sites you don’t want included.\u00a0 You see the world the way you want to see it.\u00a0 This isn’t necessarily a good idea from a societal point of view, but it’s what people will want.<\/p>\n

And Google doesn’t let you have it.\u00a0 I see an opportunity…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve just read that Google has signed an agreement with Twitter to include tweets in their search results.\u00a0 Now, I think Google has done some pretty clever things so far such as Google Maps.\u00a0 But while I have no problem with Google adding features like this to their search engine, it doesn’t mean I want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[269,267,268,272,273,270,271],"class_list":{"0":"post-583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-personal","7":"tag-google","8":"tag-google-maps","9":"tag-headlines-from-fox-news","10":"tag-news-aggregator","11":"tag-search-engine","12":"tag-tweets","13":"tag-twitter","14":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe9t8-9p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}