Google News RULES

How about this?

Mike Dixon from Google took the time to contact me about my “problem” with Google News.

I had accidentally “personalized” the site to show the American feed, rather than the Canadian one.

Here’s Mike’s advice:

… it looks like you’re actually seeing
the U.S. edition of google news (rather than the canadian edition),
with one canadian section added (the world section, which of course
isn’t going to have much canadian news either).

my guess for how this happened: at some point you were viewing the
U.S. edition (either because you went to news.google.com or because
you were on news.google.ca and switched with the drop-down at the top
of the page). then you said “personalize this page” and made some
changes (judging from the section list on the left, you moved U.S.
national news to the bottom and added a world section from the
canadian edition). now that you’ve created a personalized edition
(based on the U.S. edition), that will get shown to you whenever you
return.

here’s how to fix it: on the front page, you should see an “edit this
personalized page” link. click it, and then the “reset page to
default” link. this will delete your personalization, and should
return you to the default canadian edition (if you’re on
news.google.ca; if you’re on .com, you’ll get the U.S. edition but can
switch with the drop down). confirm that the “google news” logo
includes the word “canada”, that there’s a canada section on the front
page, and the sports section includes an appropriate quantity of
hockey…

now you can redo any personalization you’d like.

THAT WORKED PERFECTLY.

Thanks Google.

=== my original post:

I logged into Google News Canada to check who won the Grey Cup, one of the biggest sports stories of the year.

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Yet I did not find out who won the big football game — (it wasn’t Edmonton) — because the story was not linked on the home page. Nor even on the Sports page.

Google News.

It’s still not improving as fast as I would like.

3 thoughts on “Google News RULES

  1. Brian's avatar Brian

    I use Google News as my home page, but I am really disappointed; can somebody point me to another news filter that
    1. allows me to actively suggest categories of stories I might be interested in and actively reject categories I am not interested in;
    2. notices which stories I like and promotes similar stories through the filter;
    3. doesn’t blatantly promote paid-for “news” such as the innumerable James Bond plants.
    This doesn’t sound hard; perhaps such a site exists and I just don’t know about it? Anybody?

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