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Snapshot: comments on Google News

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

I was looking around at some of the blog posts and news articles on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, including one at Compete about traffic flows on Cyber Monday, and as usual I wound up at Google News doing a search for the term Cyber Monday. What came up was a cluster of almost 700 [… ... Continue reading »

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  • Actually I've seen them loads of times (therefore I guess its not just a US thing) ... they're actually pretty cool, and do add another dimension to the story sometimes. At other times, they allow people who only got a one-sentence sound-byte to expound on their positions. I've seen quite a few examples of this related to medical news, for example
  • That's interesting, Tony. I could see that kind of thing being really
    useful for complicated or nuanced medical or scientific stories, so
    that people could get more detail or background or differing opinions
    if they wish. Just another way in which Google is making my day job
    irrelevant. :-)

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