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Chapter 3: Directory Trolling and News BrowsingIn This Chapter
Google is primarily known as a search engine, but it offers two services that provide superb browsing:
In a way, these two portions of Google are exactly opposed. Google Directory is completely hand-built, and Google News is completely automated. No site can be listed in the directory without human approval, whereas posted stories in Google News are untouched by human hands. The directory represents the ultimate in human cooperation and virtual cataloguing. Google takes its basic listings from the Open Directory Project database, created by a large volunteer organization determined to assemble the largest and most useful classified index of Web sites. More than 20,000 real-life editors evaluate and select Web sites for this project, which was started in 1998. Listings created by the Open Directory Project are used by certain other Web directory sites, including Google Directory. To the raw Open Directory database, Google adds its PageRank formulas, creating an enhanced directory experience. Google News employs computer algorithms to select and organize news stories from about 4,500 online news sources around the world. The news site is continually updated and organized by topic and news story, not by newspaper or news source. This chapter covers both Google Directory and Google News. You might be less familiar with the directory than with the increasingly popular News section, but consider reading through both halves of the chapter. They contain tips that will turn your life around and save you from imminent perdition. Well, let me back down from that statement. The chapter contains tips for getting more out of Google. That seems safe.
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