Published by KermMartian 17 years, 5 months ago (2006-11-29T16:26:44+00:00) | Discuss this article

I have often toyed with the idea of a program that would periodically go to news sources and look at the number of available articles, then crossreference this value with other news sources as a measure of global activity. I have now created a rudimentary implementation of this idea that reads the number of articles on the frontpage of Google News™, averages the number of articles over 10 calls at 0.5 seconds per call, then saves this value to a file. The process is repeated once per minute, and can be viewed in a variety of graphical formats, with more views coming soon. You can see the progress so far here:

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Google News™ Trends

Update: I have added a plethora of new functionality, including new color schemes, new time increments, new views, and of course, a help function and the necessary "Beta" tag that distinguishes all cool webapps.

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