Monday, February 16, 2009

News Aggregators

News what? Aggregator-an Internet company that collects information about competing products and services and distributes it through a single website. In the case of a news aggregator, the competing products and services are news organizations. Yahoo and Google have become your news butlers, picking and choosing information that you receive. In a sense, they also have become the "gatekeepers" that editors traditionally have been. Scary in many ways. It's a computer, not a human intelligence making the choices. But, that said, you might find such a service a valuable addition to following the news on the websites of the International Herald Tribune, The National and The Economist. Check out the top world news and international headlines from Yahoo! News . Also, the world section on Goggle News .

1 comment:

salma albraiki said...

I just knew this. I usually look for news in certain websites like The National or Gulf News. But when I clicked this google news section I found news from different sources around the world : CNN, Al Jazeera, ABC, New York Times, ...etc.

I think it's better not to stick to one source of news. I kind of don't understand why it is scary.