Users drag and drop "modules"—data feeds providing such information as pictures, headlines and search results—and weave them together.Most of these mash-ups are still toys, but firms offering software as a service have started offering similar combinations.
When you launch Grokr, it customizes the interface to show you local weather, traffic, trending headlines and search terms, movies, and other personal entertainment-focused recommendations like nearby restaurants, bars, parks, and more.
If you're still unfamiliar with the quasi-mythical story of Sixto Rodriguez (as most people outside South Africa and Australia apparently were until this award-winning documentary made headlines) then Searching for Sugar Man (2012, StudioCanal, 12) tells a story so seeped in intertwining fact and fiction that you may start to wonder whether the whole thing isn't a set-up.
George S. Alderton, then sports editor of the Lansing State Journal, and Dale Stafford, sportswriter for the Lansing Capitol News, felt the name was too unwieldy for newspaper headlines and searched the contest entries for a better choice.
Headline writers searched for the most damaging word, ranging from zero to catastrophe.
Although Google already has a different system for including headlines on some search pages, QDF offered more sophisticated results, putting the headlines at the top of the page for some queries, and putting them in the middle or at the bottom for others.
Just to be clear, this is different than searching for a topic which is in the news and getting news results at the top in the form of headlines, which all search engines do.
The ambition is to be able to answer natural language queries such as "Please, tell me the latest on the Brexit" or "Who won today's GP?." The "Digital Assistant" will read headlines and articles, search Corriere della Sera's archives, and scrape the publisher's digital content for material.
In 1923, a Chicago journalist named Edward Page Gaston grabbed international headlines in a search for the body of the legendary "Indian-Princess" Pocahontas who died in England.
Along this line of reasoning, headlines like, "In search of a female Banksy: Aiko and Faith47 take on a male-dominated street art world," might seem trite. .
