Google News clouds write the stories
Tim Finin, 1:00pm 9 May 2006Google News Cloud is an experimental site that shows a clowd of tags associated with articles from Google News. The developer, Fernando Serboncini, doesn’t say what techniques he uses to assigns tags to stories, but he does have an interesting interface. When you hover over a tag, it is highlighted along with all of the related tags, i.e., other taqs that appear with it in at least one story. It is surprising how well seeing the set of highlighted tags gives you an instant sense of the stories. The stories almost write themselves, a bit badly, perhaps, but you quickly get an idea of what’s going on.
| hover over | and see all of these tags |
| africa | south Africa president jacob Zuma rape |
| blair | UK Tony Blair Iran Labour Iran Brown |
| fbi | FBI most wanted polygamist leader |
| Cruise | Tom Cruise Nicole Kidman mission impossible still box office |
| bird | movie us bird flu fatal contact |
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