Saturday, July 16, 2011

Google implements badges on Google News

Badges on Google News?? Relax, I'm not talking about the entry weight of users supposedly uninteresting. Is that like Orkut, the center's news search engine will win the badges - or stamps, as they are called in the social network - to better characterize the users.


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According to company data, a usual reader of political news consumes 20 articles on this subject for 6 months. With the badges, this subject will gain a badge in which it is clear that he often reads the news related to the same subject. This will be true for politics, football teams, premieres related to culture, and so on. There are over 500 badges to get the joke, and the idea is to expand that number.

Not only the 500 badges right away, there is gradation between them. The user will start with the seal of bronze. Over time, you can digivolved for silver, gold, platinum and "ultimate" as more and read more news from the site.

As in other Google services, privacy is at stake in News. The company said that by default, the user will have all badges marked as private. It is he who will decide whether you want the seal to become public. It would be a way to show the world that John Doe understand (or read enough, at least) about something.


Expect to sit in their badges by Google News. At this first moment of launching the feature, the special stamps will be released only to the issue of service to the United States. The company should release it in other editions of News in the coming weeks and months, because that's how Google generally does.