{"id":55131,"date":"2009-11-30T05:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/AOL-to-Introduce-Algorithm-Generated-News-Stories-and-Topics-128376.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-30T05:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T10:40:00","slug":"aol-to-introduce-algorithm-generated-news-stories-and-topics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/55131","title":{"rendered":"AOL to Introduce Algorithm-Generated News Stories and Topics"},"content":{"rendered":"

As AOL nears its spin off from Time Warner, which will be in a little over a week now, it’s talking more and more about the future. So far, most plans haven’t really been all that groundbreaking and the company has been saying for a while now that it wants to become a content powerhouse reaching into any niche it believes could be profitable. Now CEO Tim Armstrong has detailed some more plans the company has in this segment and it’s a surprising turn for the company though, in hindsight, perhaps not a totally unexpected one. The CEO told the Wall Street Journal that it planned to develop a hybrid system for creating news and content, part machine part human, which would push out content on the topics most likely to be popular at that particular time. <\/p>\n

The system is designed to create the content which will bring in the most readers, in turn generating the most advertising money. An algorithm will track breaking news stories and popular topics and will determine which subject is likely to generate the most revenue. It will then present these findings to the company’s editors, which are at about 500 at the moment, but AOL has been on a hiring spree in this front. Then, they will chose the ones they’ll push through to the next step, sending out article requests through a new web site it has set up to any f… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As AOL nears its spin off from Time Warner, which will be in a little over a week now, it’s talking more and more about the future. So far, most plans haven’t really been all that groundbreaking and the company has been saying for a while now that it wants to become a content powerhouse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}