AnnieA
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- Down South
It's in beta and looks promising. I hate Google News because they heavily promote subscription sites like the Washington Post and NYT. Newzit includes them and other subscription sites, but puts a little orange banner at the bottom of the article link indicating that it's behind a paywall. I also like that the algorithms are designed so that your favorite sites will eventually appear first. So far, I'm seeing some hits from The Sun and other tabloids on the UK page, but am hoping those will get bumped down as I use the site more.
'About' section copied and pasted below.
https://www.newzit.com/
'About' section copied and pasted below.
https://www.newzit.com/
Welcome to this beta version of Newzit!
Newzit is a new and unbiased search and aggregation tool for bona fide news sites ONLY.
Content is rated by our algorithm purely for its relevance and recency, regardless of political orientation.
Every news organisation has its own biases, even the ones who say they don’t.
But with Newzit you will always get both sides of a story.
You might see articles that upset you but there is no fake news, because we won’t index the sites who produce it.
Pay-walled sites are treated the same as everyone else, although their content will be flagged for users.
You can either use the search bar or browse the day’s 60 Top Stories in the US and UK, picked strictly by algorithm.
By clicking the See More button for each group you will be shown the same story as covered by other sites.
Top Stories are presented for the US and UK. You can toggle between the two by clicking the relevant flag at the top of the page.
You can also click on any of the ‘most-searched’ terms of the moment in the ‘ticker tape’ at the top of the page.
Thumbnails of popular home pages for the US and UK are included so you can see at a glance what is going on in your country and visit those sites directly by clicking the relevant page.
In time the home pages you visit most often will be presented to you first.
So far we have indexed 900+ US sites and 200+ UK sites.
Shortly we will be adding news sites from Australia, New Zealand and Canada with Top Story options for those countries to follow.
We will also be adding Top Story tabs for Sports, Finance and Showbiz in the coming weeks.
Currently Newzit is only available in a desktop version although you can still access it from your mobile device. Mobile web and app versions will be released once we have completed this beta phase of testing.
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