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Show HN: A search engine tailored for news

by amoorthy on 5/19/22, 6:26 PM with 6 comments

• by acesandnates81 on 5/24/22, 6:00 PM

  This is great! What was your data source for the news?

• by amoorthy on 5/19/22, 6:27 PM

  Hi folks. If you’re worried that Google is giving you biased search results when it comes to news, or just unsure which of the many search results to click on, then you might like The Factual’s news search engine, which I built with my co-founder, Ajoy.

  We rank individual news articles for how informative and objective they are using a variety of signals that proxy expertise: depth and extent of research (links, quotes), neutral tone of writing, historical topic focus and ratings of journalist, and source reputation. We overlay political bias ratings and select multiple highly informative articles across the political spectrum on each topic. We also give additional context like read time, and make it easy to filter out paywalled articles.

  More on how it works here: https://www.thefactual.com/how-it-works.

  Feedback/questions appreciated. Thanks!