Changes to Google News Archive and search

[Victor Steinbok]

Irrespectively of what the project may cost them or bring in ad sales,
News Search and News Archive would have been far more beneficial to /us/
if they simply return them to where they were about 18-24 months ago.
And Google Books seems to be completely broken, despite a positive legal
outcome.

     VS-)

On 2/12/2014 2:15 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:
> Thanks for the update, Ben. Google currently employs some of the most
> brilliant computer scientists in the world. They know that it is not
> necessary to break the system while they are performing a "facelift".
>
> Chronological search has worked incorrectly in GB and Google News for
> a couple years even when the metadata is accurate. The databases are
> still extremely valuable.
>
> The revenue from Google Books and the Google News Archive is probably
> small. Historical net revenue is probably quite negative for these
> projects, I would guess. On the other hand, they can feed this data to
> their new deep AI projects.

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