Googlezon?

[runk-0-funk]

This is a little freaky... but possible...

http://broom.org/epic/

[clientcenters]

Nah I don't think it's possible. What they are describing about Google and MSN, they only archieve, sort, display news. We will still need the news companies to report the news. We are still going to need reporters to find the news, and writers to write the news.

[runk-0-funk]

But that is where the Google Grid comes in. People gather and publish their news from there. Google can always pull stuff from there. Not all the normal news groups will be lost either. Google will just control most of them.

[Psan]

bunch of crap... Anything that can be predicted today... won't happen

[Dean]

Like Global Warming or the weather tomorrow?

[MarkK]

I dunno what this movie is but I got bored after 10 seconds..

[Psan]

Like Global Warming or the weather tomorrow?

If you watch the movie, understand the IT world, and read my post you will understand. Yes like the weather tomorrow

[niv]

Haha, epic sounds like the Japanese news outlet...this isn't new. The Japanese newspapers pride themselves on being sensationalist.

And the NYT being read by elitists and old people...more like intelligent people. :\

[Wojtek]

humm, so we will be creating our own news huh?

Will we have flying shoes too? I want flying shoes in 2014

[stabme]

Nah I don't think it's possible. What they are describing about Google and MSN, they only archieve, sort, display news. We will still need the news companies to report the news. We are still going to need reporters to find the news, and writers to write the news.you didn't understand the movie, did you?

that's why google buys blogger: people communicate via blogger to describe whats going on. based on demographics, priority, and frequency, algorithms sort that as the news. so, theoretically, google algorithms would find out whats going on in the world, take snipplets, and write its own news like that, completely automated, without the need of journalists. the journalists would be the blog users.

it's all completely possible.

[niv]

That would be as reliable as Rush Limbaugh or Michael Moore doing international news.

[Dean]

http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/images/07-minister.jpg

[darkcurves]

They predicted it abit too detailed.

[clientcenters]

you didn't understand the movie, did you?

that's why google buys blogger: people communicate via blogger to describe whats going on. based on demographics, priority, and frequency, algorithms sort that as the news. so, theoretically, google algorithms would find out whats going on in the world, take snipplets, and write its own news like that, completely automated, without the need of journalists. the journalists would be the blog users.

it's all completely possible.

I completely understood it. My point was that we still are going to need a "reliable" source of news; trained professionals that are under regulation to report "trustworthy" news. You can't believe everything you read in a blog. Who are you going to believe? Channel 9 news or some 14 year old kid on his weblog?

When writers write articles, it gets fact checked. When someone writes in their blog, it doesn't get fact checked. Newsrooms are funded by the network to keep that news current, factual and interesting. Bloggers arent getting paid a dime and have no incentative for reporting factual and researched news.

And where do you think those bloggers heard about that important local news anyways, on their local newschannel.

All blogging is, is a faster way to spread hearsay. That's why I don't believe that movie could ever happen in real life.

[Wojtek]

I think what the movie wanted to say is that
2003 = bloggers are ~12-16 yo kids
2014 = those same boggers are 23-27 yo adults

take the tsunami incident for example, say it happened in 2014. tens of thousands of asians would of written on it. googlezon searches, matches details found in several of those blog entries and writes an article.

teoretically possible, but the system could easily be abused and stuff. very unreliable.

so I say we'll still have newspapers in 10 years heh, oh and flying shoes :p

[niv]

And in 2012 the United States will be only the one to have failed the test of the Kyoto Protocol due to selfish bastards and their two-lane wide SUVs and Hummers.

[Renegade]

lol Wojtek

[stabme]

And in 2012 the United States will be only the one to have failed the test of the Kyoto Protocol due to selfish bastards and their two-lane wide SUVs and Hummers..... but, we need space to put our 2 year old child in.. :(

[niv]

That's what hybrid minivans are for...40 mpg

[stabme]

but it's not american!! it's not TOUGH enough!

[Wojtek]

OH mY God :biggrin2:

New Google feature sorts through blogs
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-blog15sep15,1,4950803.story?coll=la-headlines-business&ctrack=1&cset=true

Google Grid, its happening... :devious2:

[Peo]

Registration is needed to read the latimes article. Any other source?

[Robert]

Registration is needed to read the latimes article. Any other source?

BugMeNot ;-)

But, here is the article:



Google Launches Tool to Search for Blog Updates

From Associated Press



A new Google Inc. specialty search engine sifts through the Internet's millions of frequently updated personal journals, a long-anticipated development expected to help propel "blogging" into the cultural mainstream.

The new tool, unveiled Wednesday at http://www.google.com/blogsearchfocuses exclusively on the material contained in the journals known as weblogs, or blogs.

Mountain View, Calif.-based Google, the Internet's general search engine leader, first set its sights on blogs with its 2003 acquisition of a small start-up called Blogger that makes software to publish and manage the journals.

Since that deal, Google had been expected to build a blogging-focused search engine — a mission finally accomplished by a group of developers in the company's New York office.

"There really has been a need for a world-class search product to expose this dynamic content to a worldwide audience," said Jason Goldman, who came to Google in the Blogger deal and is now the company's product manager for blogging search.

Over the last two years, blogs have become an increasingly popular vehicle for sharing opinions and information, sometimes breaking news and more often prodding the mainstream media into reconsidering how it has handled some big stories.

First word of Google's new searching tool was, in fact, disseminated by a blog.

A few people have been able to make a living largely off their blogs, or parlay them into book deals. Blogs also have been a source of embarrassment and angst, resulting in the firings of several workers, including a Google product manager, who angered their employers with revelations posted on their sites.

No one knows for certain how big the so-called blogosphere has become. Technorati, the niche's top search engine, says it indexes 17.1 million sites spanning about 1.5 billion links.

Goldman declined to disclose the size of Google's blogging index.

The appearance of the new Google tool makes it more likely that rivals Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. will develop a similar feature.

[Bruce]

September 15, 2005
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A new Google Inc. specialty search engine sifts through the Internet's millions of frequently updated personal journals, a long-anticipated development expected to help propel "blogging" into the cultural mainstream.

The new tool, unveiled Wednesday at http://www.google.com/blogsearchfocuses exclusively on the material contained in the journals known as weblogs, or blogs.

Mountain View, Calif.-based Google, the Internet's general search engine leader, first set its sights on blogs with its 2003 acquisition of a small start-up called Blogger that makes software to publish and manage the journals.

Since that deal, Google had been expected to build a blogging-focused search engine — a mission finally accomplished by a group of developers in the company's New York office.

"There really has been a need for a world-class search product to expose this dynamic content to a worldwide audience," said Jason Goldman, who came to Google in the Blogger deal and is now the company's product manager for blogging search.

Over the last two years, blogs have become an increasingly popular vehicle for sharing opinions and information, sometimes breaking news and more often prodding the mainstream media into reconsidering how it has handled some big stories.

First word of Google's new searching tool was, in fact, disseminated by a blog.

A few people have been able to make a living largely off their blogs, or parlay them into book deals. Blogs also have been a source of embarrassment and angst, resulting in the firings of several workers, including a Google product manager, who angered their employers with revelations posted on their sites.

No one knows for certain how big the so-called blogosphere has become. Technorati, the niche's top search engine, says it indexes 17.1 million sites spanning about 1.5 billion links.

Goldman declined to disclose the size of Google's blogging index.

The appearance of the new Google tool makes it more likely that rivals Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. will develop a similar feature.

For future reference, http://bugmenot.com

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Damn, I'm getting slow it seems. :o

[Wojtek]

weird, it didnt ask me for a login from here :p oh well

[Blank Verse]

No one noticed how old this thread is?

[Bruce]

No one noticed how old this thread is?I did, but seeing as Peo had just replied to it I didn't dare question it. :p

[Wojtek]

No one noticed how old this thread is?
Are you accusing me of digging up? :biggrin2:

[Blank Verse]

you've been accused, newb :p

[dsfreak]

This is really cool, very much based on guesses, but could work.