For a work project, I've been testing Bing News Alerts, where you can get a notice from Bing whenever a topic you're interested in pops up in the news.
I asked for a regular alert on a company called Perot Systems, just to see what level of detail would turn up, and how many different items might flood my in-box. Well, nothing much happened for a while but last week, Dell offered to buy the company, which, yes was founded by Ross Perot, for $3.9 billion.
Today, Bing sent me a summary of all the articles on this sizzling hot, Texas-sized busines-tech story. At the top of the list was a link to the story . . . as it appeared in the People's Daily Online. Yes . . . the one in what used to be call Red China.
I'm not sure what's more jaw dropping . . that a computer algorithm ranks the People's Daily Online along with the Wall Street Journal . . or that the the PDO actually exists . . or the scary thought that there are probably millions of PD readers who are actually interested in the dealings of Michael Dell and Ross Perot.
All I can say is, the world's certainly changed since I first sat down at the wire service desk at the Spokesman-Review.
Good luck, Sandlin and Matt, with that G20 thing . . try to meet some interesting venture capitalists, or something.
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I suppose PDO must have a large readership? Esp since it's chinese fans don't exactly have the entire internet to pick from.
Does this mean Bing failed your test?
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