{"id":3694,"date":"2005-09-15T15:47:52","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T15:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/msnbc-newsbot.html"},"modified":"2005-09-15T15:47:52","modified_gmt":"2005-09-15T15:47:52","slug":"msnbc-newsbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/msnbc-newsbot.html","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC Newsbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"2\">Is it just me or does the MSNBC <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/newsbot.msnbc.msn.com\/\"><font size=\"2\">newsbot<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> look more like <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\"><font size=\"2\">Google news<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> than ever? Interestingly if you want to have a newsbot that is legitimate you may want to consider making sure that two out of the top four stories on your site are not from MSNBC. Perhaps this is a fluke but there should be an algorithm that limits MSNBC news in an MSNBC newsbot. Right?<\/p>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\">Perhaps I am looking at this from a consumer point of view instead of Microsoft\u2019s. Still, if this bot wants to gain any traction at all compared to Google it needs to be dare I say \u201cfair and balanced??\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me or does the MSNBC newsbot look more like Google news than ever? Interestingly if you want to have a newsbot that is legitimate you may want to consider making sure that two out of the top four stories on your site are not from MSNBC. Perhaps this is a fluke but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}