Google to add 'news feed' to website and app

Re:Google to add 'news feed' to website and app by thomyorkie on Thursday July 20, 2017 @01:30AM (#14810201)

The difference is personalization. I never would visit a portal site like yahoo, but every morning I look through my Google Now feed. Relevance matters.

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Re:Google to add 'news feed' to website and app by pjc50 on Thursday July 20, 2017 @03:03AM (#14810537)

Does anyone else remember the personalisable "iGoogle"?

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Re:Google to add 'news feed' to website and app by cyxxon on Thursday July 20, 2017 @03:39AM (#14810676)

Yeah, I actually hated when that went away. I had several RSS feeds on there, my inbox, my calendar... never found a good replacement. I used Netvives for a while, but it was somehow not the same (can't really put my finger on it, though).

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Re:Google to add 'news feed' to website and app by hammock on Thursday July 20, 2017 @10:09AM (#14812550)

Can be replaced by Google Now and/or your Android home screen (inbox widget, etc)

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Re:Google to add 'news feed' to website and app by TeMPOraL on Thursday July 20, 2017 @10:49AM (#14812949)

Except Google Now still completely sucks because you have close to zero direct control on what gets shown there.

Also: I like that they're experimenting, but come on. Replacing a settings menu with a list of very specific yes/no questions that are added to that list as you encounter them - that's just wrong. You don't even get a benefit of being able to scroll through a settings screen to discover what features are available...

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Re:Google to add 'news feed' to website and app by pjc50 on Thursday July 20, 2017 @11:16AM (#14813182)

Not on a desktop PC!

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Re:Google to add 'news feed' to website and app by FussyZeus on Thursday July 20, 2017 @09:26AM (#14812225)

After it went away I spent a lot of personal time building something similar on a unix box running at home. Still miss some of the features I could never replicate though.

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Re:Google to add 'news feed' to website and app by SmellyGeekBoy on Thursday July 20, 2017 @03:54AM (#14810736)

It was my homepage for the longest time. Such a great service. Sadly now I have to come to HN and hope there's something of interest here when I have 15 minutes to spare.

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Re:Google to add 'news feed' to website and app by andygates on Thursday July 20, 2017 @04:53AM (#14810936)

Oh, that was the good stuff. RIP.

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Re:Google to add 'news feed' to website and app by mevile on Thursday July 20, 2017 @01:51AM (#14810279)

You could actually customize excite.com a great deal. You could choose your stocks, your weather with a zipcode. You could make a box with your favorite links, you could drag around the various boxes and news feeds, add RSS links. The whole deal. It wasn't personalized content created automatically based on your search history though.

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Re:Google to add 'news feed' to website and app by dredmorbius on Thursday July 20, 2017 @03:55AM (#14810742)

http://www.freshnews.org

An early RSS-based aggregator -- but you could (and can) choose your feeds, if you like.

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Re:Google to add 'news feed' to website and app by ec109685 on Thursday July 20, 2017 @01:55AM (#14810292)

Yahoo's portal is personalized (but not explicitly so).

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