The Google Search is not the best when it comes to searching news of the last hour , this is practically a fact, many know it and Google knows this too . This is why he wants to make up for it with a very ambitious project.
The project Google is working on is called Big Moments and aims to make the Google Search platform more attractive when it comes to consulting news from last hour. In this context, Google has not proven to be up to its competitors: during the first weeks of the pandemic Google had to intervene specifically to show the news as a priority disclosed by institutional bodies, to avoid fueling hysteria and fake news.
Becoming more palatable also passes from to becoming more reliable . This is also very clear to Google, which aims to make its platform very similar to Twitter , which is a leader in the field of latest news. The work of the Big Moments project team focuses on events that occurred in the past , during which the news presentation algorithms could do better: these are situations such as protests Black Lives Matter and the assault on the US Capitol .
The work is not easy, also because it must always be assumed that Google is not a publisher and cannot perform this task. His is a platform that hosts content. The Big Moments team is however working on the implementation of software algorithms for editorial choice , which would avoid human interaction.
Among the innovations that Google is working on in the news sector is the proposition of updates in real time regarding people involved in a specific event. This real-time operation would already be in the testing phase, according to what reported by The Information .
At the moment everything remains quite nuanced , a sign that Google doesn't want to let much leak out until it has something concrete in its hand. We will come back to update you as soon as further developments on the Big Moments project emerge.
