Google wants to be your main source to follow the news
Millions of users around the world are interested in following and reading local and international news. In order to do this they usually rely on Twitter or Facebook and not Google, but it seems that Google wants to change that with a new feature.
That’s where company She is currently developing a feature called “Big Moments”. It will be part of the Google News platform, through which you can follow the news on a daily basis.
But Google News is known to be an ideal platform to catch up on news you might have missed, or news that’s circulating, but it’s not ideal for keeping track of news around the clock. But Big Moments will change that.
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The new Google feature works to identify and display urgent and important news within the platform, in addition to mentioning the details of the news as much as possible, and the main goal of this is to target news readers on the one hand, and to target all users with breaking news on the other hand.
Currently, the news is displayed on Google in brief, in addition to that news is based on some tweets from Twitter. But the most popular search engine would like to replace it all with reliable and detailed news.
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Google wants to control the news
Google aims for this feature, according to to report From The Information, to be the main source for following up on breaking news and verifying its contents. Including sensitive news such as the number of deaths in terrorist attacks, or the number of victims of hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.
The company tested this feature, which it has been working on for a long time, during the events that took place in Kabul, the capital of Pakistan, several weeks ago. The company has presented information about the victims based on Wikipedia during this beta phase.
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Accordingly, the company must inventory all current events, taking care of the levels of accuracy of the information and presenting it in real time once it is searched for.
For example, in the event of an armed attack on a bank, the most popular platform should display the details as soon as the user searches for the news. You may have noticed that this method may hit news and content sites in a kill.
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A short time ago, the company had faced legal problems in Australia for “quoting” news content from news sites without paying for it, and Facebook was subjected to the same accusations, and we do not know whether this will affect the new feature or not.
