Thursday, May 24, 2012

Google News gets a new human touch, launching publisher-curated Editors’ Picks as a standing section (Megan Garber/Nieman Journalism Lab)

Posted by SecureTech

August 4, 2011

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Google News gets a new human touch, launching publisher-curated Editors’ Picks as a standing section — When Google News launched in 2002, it did so with some declarations: “This page was generated entirely by computer algorithms without human editors.” And: “No humans were harmed or even used in the creation of this page.”