News Spectrum: An Autonomy Service?
February 10, 2014
I came across www.news-spectrum.com. The system looked a bit like some of Autonomy’s visualizations. Here’s the splash screen for the service:
The idea is that a story can be viewed through time. There are news spectra for the UK, Europe, the US, politics, business, and a handful of other categories. A click on the “detail” button displays stories in the topic stream.
I navigate to a who is service and learned that the domain name is registered to Autonomy, now a unit of Hewlett Packard.
In my lectures for law enforcement and intelligence professionals, the challenges of locating information in “news” is getting more difficult. Sites like News Spectrum and some others do not include a search function. When the search function is present, the user has to turn cartwheels to get useful information. For example, navigate to World News and run a query. I used Sochi. Here’s the result list:
Scroll down the page and this is what I saw:
Videos. Videos. More videos. Where is the text? You have to do some experimenting. A tip is to select a language and then rerun the query.
The problem, of course, is that most people just take what a system displays in the case of News Spectrum and World News.
Any type of in depth research requires some specialized, and often time consuming, tactics. You can learn more about how to get through the Kevlar padding sites that wrap their indexes in Kevlar.
Net net: A news search can look good and run little videos. But for in depth information, news search is getting increasingly difficult.
Stephen E Arnold, February 10, 2014
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