Updates: ReadWriteWeb Did Google Blow It with the Google News Redesign?
google昨天对news做了改版，加入了更多个性化的模块。很多文章对google的个性化新闻做了讨论:
ReadWriteWeb New Google News is More Personal and Spontaneous
TechCrunch Google News Gets Biggest Overhaul Since 2002, Adds Trending Topics And Personal News Stream
Google的具体改动可以见下图：
下面是一些群众的评论
The personalized news idea is a total disrespect to the human intelligence.
Instead of news/analytics which you have to browse,read,analyze, understand you get a personalized stream which “fits your interests”
It is well known result from recommendation engines and collaborative filtering: such recommendation/personalization engine significantly decrease the diversity of the information processed into the system, at the end the interests of majority of participants converge to the very narrow set of topics.
I love traditional newspapers and magazines more than Google’s Newsburger.
这位担心推荐系统会降低推荐结果的多样性，从而让最终的推荐结果局限在很少的几个话题上。
看网上的评论，真是恶评如潮啊，没看到几个说好话的，大多数都是表示不如以前的设计。
I do not like the new layout – the older layout gave a good sample of the news in different categories – this layout is just plain confusing – very poor layout and organization. Just because something has been around for awhile does NOT mean that it needs to be messed with. For example, many people really prefer the UI of XP to Windows 7. New does NOT equate to better!
These changes, improvements, customization features, personalization are awesome, innovative, inspired, clever BUT unnecessary. The clustering of news the way it was and the option to add sections was just fine. I do google news a dozen times a day. Today I struggled with this new layout to read the titles, figure out the organization … and frankly just got so #^$%’ed off that I closed it and deleted my bookmark.
I love the new features, but hate the new UI. Google has generally been amazing at minimalist UI’s that do not distract you from what you are looking for (just look at their homepage). I have used google news for a while as my main news source. Google, please fix!
Google doesn’t give a crap what you think. They will tell you what you will like. Your only job is to login like a good sheep and proceed to provide them with endless amounts of preference and selection data, for free. Anonymous customization? Long gone. Multiple points of view… god they know how much you hate that, and now you can get rid of those pesky people who think differently. And of course, everything must be “social”. Because of course if thousands of other retards think something is interesting, you’d better think so too! How DARE you not conform?! 100 years from now, historians will look back on this age as the time when the word “social” became totally corrupted and an oxymoron.
我个人对google个性化新闻的看法是，不知道他为什么要做定制，让用户自己指定topic，这个不能算做推荐，其实和iGoogle差不多，就是让用户定制。作为新闻来说，推荐是要给用户带来惊喜。因为正常的用户看新闻就是每天知道一下发生了什么事情，这个google的旧首页可以很好的满足。所以如果要做个性化，应该是给用户带来更多的惊喜，而不是给用户提供一个个性化的浏览方式。
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