Google News: Leading The Road to Free Access of Information
Whenever you woke up to a new day and want to see the news over the internet, you would have to do one of these things. First, you type the headline, Google presents what’s found, and you do your second job—pick one of the options. Then read. This is a sort of ‘dig and read’, at it has now become especially when what you want is simply updating your eyes without getting deeper into the sites or when you do not want to limit yourself to a news site. The second way works for you if you have established tastes or habits on the news world where you would directly visit the news site you prefer and read: BBC or anything else.
But since Google News (2006), you have a third option: news.google.com, where you can mix the two options, if of course your site is aggregated by Google News which is most likely than not under normal course of things. Once you got there, you unleashed all the news world to run for you on your screen; getting whatever you want or (or rather ‘and’) more than what you wanted.
On Thursday morning, I heard about Asgardia briefly in a local radio and I wanted to check some details about it. I simply went to Google News. Igor Ashurbeyli’s idea was of course absorbing and is like one of the stories that we already have been familiarized with in many sci-fi stories such as The 100 and Elysium. Putting that story aside, since I was also amazed a lot on the way Google has placed the news for visitors I made a thought on Google News itself. Feeling how I experienced my screen, I realized I am being helped a lot to know the story I was interested at with super ease. I would simply pick those which were aggregated and were presented the way I prefer depending my mood or taste. But most important of all, the fact that it was easy, I thought, can affect the way we access information.
It is an age of free information. And Google News helps a lot in getting the news very easily and comprehensively. And that could help us all. It places the news sites near to us which we could otherwise might have not visited or even known for that matter. And the sites reach whoever wants to look at them effectively in a better way. Rather than focusing on the marketing or property rights issues, therefore, I wanted to see the effect of Google News from the freedom of information side.
For that Google News has done now a breakthrough in a structurally perfect configuration and made stories reach you if you like them or even do not. And the ease to share those information by reaching a centralized news centre that has all the best things on a topic means freedom of information or Google News.
We get what is available in an amazing ease. The new structural approach Google News has made its life from simply shocks our habit by taking us to the information itself rather than news sites, so even if what it does is collecting the sites. We get the news by topic, from all the sites that matters on the topic. We reduce the fad of visiting some sites only, reducing by that the fact of us missing information not or miss-covered in some news site. With the synchronized thematic presentation of the news, we learn deeper and reduce surfing time. Yet we compare the stories and be aware of deeply.
Yet once again, on October 14, 2016, Google was reported to launching fact check label. And with the amazing feature it already had, this is surely one of the reasons to make Google News a prime destination one has to visit for updates. You not only get all the news, but also more: help in getting facts clearly.
This clearly is a great leap towards accessing information untainted. Beyond the other markings provided by Google News already, the fact checking now would improve the way not information is obtained but beyond-what sort of information is also accessed. Ultimately, this would bring the fine information sharing (for the media) and accessing for who needs it.