“Now Google, whose name has become synonymous with internet searching, plans to build a database that will compare the track record and credibility of all news sources around the world, and adjust the ranking of any search results accordingly.”
A quote from an interesting article April 30 from New Scientist about Google’s proprietary plans to analyse news sources in a move which is bound to infuriate many.
Now if it could be applied to the promises of politicians prior to an election we could let Google choose the government for us. Yeah, I like the idea of a company deciding what I can and cannot trust. I know not to trust some newspapers based on the views of the proprietors or the writer of an op. ed. piece.
The Internet has been a place of less influence over such things and while the Google patent is more about an automated analysis of content and history one has to wonder whether to trust it.