Google is experimenting with human-curated content with Editors’ Picks, a new section on Google News that features stories selected by editors at Reuters, The Washington Post, Newsday and several other publications. That approach is a critical departure from Google’s usual math-based methodology. This sort of human-crafted curation is proving increasingly popular in an age in which user-generated content has become the rule rather than the exception. – An experiment Google is conducting on Google News includes a special section
that features favorite stories culled from editors at Reuters, The Washington
Post, Newsday and several other publications.
That approach is a critical departure from Google’s usual math-based
methodology. The Editors’ …