Comments on: Google News does local aggregation: Meh, qualified

By: William M. Hartnett

William M. Hartnett — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:25:51 +0000

I just find straight geographic filtering wanting overall. Simple proximity doesn’t necessarily mean that I’ll find the information interesting or relevant. Uninteresting news doesn’t become interesting just because it happened on my neighbor’s front lawn.

By: Tim Jones

Tim Jones — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:08:55 +0000

I agree that the current Google implementation is not particularly useful. When I type in my zip, I get the news from the associated city, not the specific area of the zip code.

I have found sites like YourStreet.com and, to a lesser extent, Outside.in do a much better job in filtering news down to a neighborhood and even street level. They don’t do it perfectly yet, but I find getting to the street level to be much more useful than the city level.

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