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Google News was ostensibly started for altruistic reasons, because on 2001-09-11 ALL news websites went down under the load.
In 2018 news websites maybe are more behind cloudflare/akamai and would be able to handle load, so less relevant technically.
But to say that altruistic reason would surprise you because of this history is extremely cynical. Even by my standards.
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Google News was ostensibly started for altruistic reasons, because on 2001-09-11 ALL news websites went down under the load.
In 2018 news websites maybe are more behind cloudflare/akamai and would be able to handle load, so less relevant technically.
But to say that altruistic reason would surprise you because of this history is extremely cynical. Even by my standards.