Oh hey, I just posted something similar I built, earlier today: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24720482" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24720482</a><p>It focuses only on searching through the candidates’ speeches, shown in a side-by-side format.<p>My thinking was that with all the divisive misinformation making their rounds these days, hearing what both candidates have said <i>first-hand</i> on the same topic presented in a side-by-side format, could help inform people of all perspectives in an unbiased way.<p>I use data indexed on a Typesense server though, not Google site search.
That's nice. But the first page of results in both columns is ads, for "coronavirus". It needs to be combined with ad suppression.<p>Reading Fox News and CNN side by side, what's striking is not what the stories say, but the selection of stories on the front page. They seem to be drawn from different universes.
Many of the stories from OAN are actually just Reuters stories. Not saying this is bad, many publications do this, but it would be cool if the app could filter those out.
How about something like this, but which only searches sites/orgs that <a href="https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/" rel="nofollow">https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/</a> rates the factual reporting as "high" or higher on, regardless of bias (or perhaps incorporating no bias)<p>Hmmm, I could probably create a custom google search page for that, eh?
I've personally found Google News to be a pretty decent front page of news. One way I ask whether I'm satisfied is if I miss out on a big story that I feel I would've wanted to be alerted on.
I think the recency of articles is wrong, maybe only from some sources. I searched for "Netherlands" and this article was fairly high up:<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-netherlands-duncan-laurence-wins-eurovision-2019-with-arcade" rel="nofollow">https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-netherlands-duncan-laurenc...</a> (2 days ago)<p>One of the results is also just a link to the front page of AlterNet. Searching for other very generic terms (country names for example) leads me to other website's front pages as well.<p>I also would've appreciated titles over the 2 panes, because as a non-American it took me a while to realize that red is right-wing/conservative (in Europe it's typically the opposite).<p>Whatever I search for there also seems to be a lot of articles from the same sources (namely thedailybeast and breitbart). Not sure anything can be done about that though.
I've found <a href="https://web.ground.news/" rel="nofollow">https://web.ground.news/</a> to be quite illuminating as far as gaslighting on both sides of the political aisle is concerned. Observation: liberal outlets are able to enforce complete suppression of even slightly unfavorable news (e.g. China censoring Pence's remarks on China during the VP debate). Conservative ones will often publish unfavorable news just to rile up the audience.