WRITTEN BY Frédéric Filloux
“Until now, mining good journalism from the web’s depths has been done from the top. Over the last 13 years, looking for “signals” that flag quality content has been at the core of Google News: With a search engine scanning and ranking 50,000 sources in 30 languages and 72 editions, its inventor, the famous computer Scientist Krishna Bharat, has taken his extraordinary breakthrough to an immense scale.
The whole system is build on a series of metrics that qualify contents: see Google News: The Secret Sauce, and the most recent version ofGoogle News’ patent. More recently, Google News chief Richard Gingras and Sally Lehrman came up with a manifesto titled the Trust Project (read the latest version on Medium), aimed at the same goal. Lehrman (a Senior Fellow in journalism ethics at Santa Clara University) and Gingras are working on another set of “signals” aimed at pinpointing quality journalism mostly based on disclosure and methodology expressed by the news source (I discussed the matterhere). (…)”
http://qz.com/416721/google-could-fix-the-business-side-of-digital-journalism-by-building-a-cms/
