When Half the 'News' About Linux or Everything Regarding the Kernel is Corporate Stenography for x86, and All From the Same Site
THIS is typical, not an edge case, but today we poke the bear. So Google News has a source diversity crisis (half the results right now come from the same site):
And consider the value of those articles. Take the first pair or three (the first is just a reprint of the announcement from Linus Torvalds, so no value is added, just loads of ads):
So this is just something about files getting removed by Marvell:
Very important? Not really... probably took a few minutes to do.
And the next is this:
Boiling down to Git commits made in recent weeks:
As we said many times before, a lot of the time (to keep abreast) merely subscribing to the mailing list or lurking in some mirror of it would be informative enough. No ads and popups everywhere (like in Phoronix) and no editorialising by people who did not write the code.
But the main issue is, half the stuff returned by Google News is some borderline clickbait with the occasional Microsoft marketing. Why can't (it couldn't, pre-layoffs) Google News staff add the many hundreds of English-speaking GNU/Linux sites that are still active? By limiting the scope, based on some vague criteria, they restrict the prism of "allowable" views to a corporations-friendly Phoronix (and founder who takes huge gifts from the corporations the site covers).
Also notice, in the above results, how Slashdot is now the voice of Zemlin and the Linux Foundation's Greg Kroah-Hartman (K-H). What about the community? Does it have a voice in Google's censorship machine? █