Google News Ranking Algorithm
November 8, 2009
Short honk: The Google continues to edge forward with replacing functions once done by humans with semi-autonomous agents. Who cares? I suppose publishers may want to think about this approach. The USPTO document that caught my interest was US20090276429, Systems and Methods for Improving the Ranking of News Articles.” Like most Google patent documents, the claims are interesting. Dig in. The company did include a brief abstract with the filing:
A system ranks results. The system may receive a list of links. The system may identify a source with which each of the links is associated and rank the list of links based at least in part on a quality of the identified sources.
The key word in the summary for me was “quality”. Google’s method is to assign a source with a score, roughly analogous to an editor’s judgment. In the Google system, the idiosyncratic, often cranky news editor becomes:
Organized and generally without a large expense account and a penchant for making life tough on 23 year old journalists.
Stephen Arnold, November 8, 2009
You think anyone paid me to compare a human editor to a method? If so, report me to the Jefferson County Animal Control officer.
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