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Fri 6 May, 2005 07:49 am
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Thursday, May 05, 2005
Hold on tight folks. Corporate America is now trying to tighten control of our news sources on the internet after their successful campaign to filter other forms of media.
Who decides what "quality" is and how do you obtain a patent on that judgment?
Who breaks the grip that media conglomerates have in controlling the news?
The Blog is going to become an even more important source of independent news.
Is there anyone left to investigate the news or will they all just report the news purchased from conglomerates?
If the patent is granted to Google, I'd like to see one stipulation added as a requirement for the patent. I'd like to see Google and Yahoo types have to add a code to their news headlines denoting the media ownership of that news source. That way, it would be blatantly obvious if all the news is coming from one source.
Google trying to patent news ranking by quality
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