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Official Google Reader Blog: Reading gets personal with Popular items and Personalized ranking
Official Google Reader Blog: Reading gets personal with Popular items and Personalized ranking
Explore section - We're always trying to help you discover new stuff in Reader, and today we're introducing "Popular items" and "Recommended sources", two ways to find interesting content from all over the Internet. We use algorithms to find top-rising images, videos and pages from anywhere (not ...
Google Reader's Personalized Ranking
Google Reader's Personalized Ranking
googlesystem.blogspot.com — Google Reader added a feature that tries to sort the posts from your subscriptions based on your... interests. The option is called "sort by magic" and it's available in any Google Reader view, but it's not enabled by default. "Your personalized ranking ... (more) Google Reader's Personalized Ranking
Google Reader Adds Magic to Your Feeds
Google Reader Adds Magic to Your Feeds
mashable.com — Google added a couple of nice changes to Reader to serve the goals of improving your discovery... of new items and personalizing your feed reading experience. First up, they’ve introduced a new Explore section designed to enhance discovery. A ... (more) Google Reader Adds Magic to Your Feeds
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Google Reader Adds Magic to Your Feeds
Mashable! — ... Google added a couple of nice changes to Reader to serve the goals of improving your discovery of new items and personalizing your feed reading experience. ...

Google Reader's Magic Finds Personalized Highlights In Feeds
louisgray.com — ... As Google Reader outlined in a blog post this afternoon, "The goal of personalization at Google remains the same as ever: to help you find the best content on the web." ...

Reading gets personal with Popular items and Personalized ranking
FriendFeed - dancameron — ... Reading gets personal with Popular items and Personalized ranking - http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2009... ...

Google Reader Gets Personal (In a Good Way)
Google Watch — ... so these topics dominated the Popular items and recommended sources lists for me: In another fine change, Google has departed from sorting in default chronological order with a new "magic" sorting option that offers feed items based on personal usage and overall activity in Reader. Click "Sort by magic" under the "Feed settings" menu of a feed or folder to switch to personalized ranking: Beverly Yang, software engineer for search quality at Google, explained: Unlike the old "auto" ranking, this new ranking is personalized for ...

Google Reader's Personalized Ranking
Google Operating System — ... Another change is that the list of recommended feeds and the "popular items" feeds have been consolidated in the new "Explore" section. "We use algorithms to find top-rising images, videos and pages from anywhere (not just your subscriptions), collect them in the new Popular items section and order them by what we think you'll like best," explains Google. ...

Google Makes Google Reader More Personal
WebProNews Feed — ... "We use algorithms to find top-rising images, videos and pages from anywhere (not just your subscriptions), collect them in the new Popular items section and order them by what we think you'll like best," ...

Google Reader Adds Magic Sort & Explore Popular
Search Engine Roundtable — I am a huge Google Reader, in fact, I might be one of the most active Google Reader users on the planet. So when they add features, I get a bit giddy. Yesterday, they added two features; an explore section and magic sorting. The explore section loops in "recommended" sources, which is an old feature, but also adds "popular." Popular basically shows you what Google deems to be important RSS items on the web but personalized based on my reader and web history. So it shows me items I may have missed that are popular and likely to be on interest to me. I can tell you that most of ...

Google Reader ‘Popular items and Personalized ranking’
D' Technology Weblog — ... To help you discover more interesting content faster and to improve your reading experience, Google Reader added two new features: ...

Google adds more personalization to Reader
Webware.com — ... Google has added new personalization features to Reader, its RSS feed aggregator, the company wrote in a blog post Thursday. One new feature is dubbed Popular Items. Using algorithms, Reader will "find top-rising images, videos and pages from anywhere (not just your subscriptions)." From there, the app will lump all those pieces in the new Popular Items section. Based on a user's subscriptions and what someone is reading, Reader orders those stories by what it thinks a person likes best. Reader's recommendations have been moved to the app's ...

Google Reader sneaks in a couple of awesome updates
The Next Web — ... If you haven’t already noticed, and frankly I couldn’t find the new features even after I’d been told, Google has added a couple of very useful little updates to the web’s leading RSS app, Google Reader ...

Google Reader now sorts your feeds "by magic"
Download Squad — ... Google has made a couple of big improvements to Google Reader, aimed at helping you easily sift through all those RSS feeds to get to the stories you'll find most relevant. One set of new features focuses on finding relevant content that you weren't already aware ...

Google Makes Google Reader More Personal
WebProNews Feed — ... "We use algorithms to find top-rising images, videos and pages from anywhere (not just your subscriptions), collect them in the new Popular items section and order them by what we think you'll like best," ...

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