Comments on: Crowdsourced-scraper-garbage-news tops Google results — huzzah!

By: Мастер строитель

Мастер строитель — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:12:58 +0000

Вам спасибо - за тёплый приём )

By: ecommer

ecommer — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:18:07 +0000

Yes, Google is making people lazy. But then, it’s just a machine following automated processes - algorithms. We should still be thinking and judging for ourselves. That guy can write as much crap as he likes.

By: Biff

Biff — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:11:34 +0000

Google is becoming more crappy every day. They now include sites that have nothing but lists of words and domain names. They also include weird sites from Asia with stolen content.

By: Panashe

Panashe — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:03:51 +0000

These people in power should make a effot to read what they write! Its really anoying to read posts with speling and grammar error. The nerve of this guy.

By: Danny Wong

Danny Wong — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:04:24 +0000

i suppose you have to be very skeptical of the things you read then!

but… perhaps the argument can be that robots are smarter than humans and their scraping + mashup might be better than a superpowered journalist (not to insult journalists or insinuate robots are smarter than humans… because I doubt this article is better than either of the articles it scraped this information from in true form).

By: Dave Caolo - Bot journalism

Dave Caolo - Bot journalism — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:01:57 +0000

[...] Topolsky makes a great point regarding “bot journalism.” “you may be discerning, but most people aren’t, and [...]

By: NT_

NT_ — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:55:16 +0000

To drive the nail straight and true, you should first edit this: “…in which we test the validity news…”.

Otherwise, point taken.

By: Triscuit

Triscuit — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:19:00 +0000

As Mr. McElroy stated, you have hit the nail on the head. In fact, you have driven said nail into the skull of this kind of writing.