Oct 04 2019 03:37 AM - edited Oct 04 2019 03:40 AM
Launchers using Google Feed has an advantage and it's the accurate news feed personalized for each user in Google's news feed (left side swipe menu).
It's understandable, people using Google search engine more often than they use Bing engine, that gives Google more data to mine and gives Google more information about people so they can more accurately personalize the news feed for each person based on their interests, specially based on their web activity.
Microsoft Launcher is honestly beautiful, feature rich and Great. but it's news feed is not accurate enough, compared to Google feed, it's only 50% accurate, most of the news are hit and miss, not very much personalization. for example when I watch Stranger Things series and then do some web search or YouTube video search for the cast or go to a few IMDB pages, then after few hours, my Google Feed would show me trailers of the new season of Stranger Things series, or show me relevant and good news about the cast.
Google feed already knows I'm into Windows 10 so it shows me Very relevant and Useful articles that are new to me about Windows 10. all this means there are very heavy data mining going on in the background but that's good because it produces useful results. it would be even better if Microsoft was able to do the same and use that data.
Here is HOW to improve it
Google saves users' activity online in a unified place here:
https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity
If Microsoft makes an agreement with Google to let Microsoft Launcher app have permission (Only if the user fully and explicitly agrees) to access user's web activity in their Google accounts, then Microsoft can use that data to accurately personalize the news feed for each person.
that data belongs to the user, Not Google, so the user should be able (if he/she wants to) to give Microsoft access to use that data to personalize news feed for him/her.
Thanks
May 07 2020 09:35 AM
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May 08 2020 07:32 AM
@Ann_Yao_680 Unless I missed the the feature in the config settings, the latest Preview version isn't any better - I can't select my News sources.
Aug 11 2020 11:51 AM
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Aug 12 2020 01:40 AM
Hi@Reg_Ault, thanks for your feedback. We will try to combine it with our R&D, in order to provide a better production.
Aug 12 2020 08:46 AM
@Ann_Yao_680 , Reg_Ault Microsoft really needs to improve this feature in Launcher. I User needs to be able to select their own News sources and tailor them to the User needs and NOT just rely on Microsoft's developers to determine what a User should see.
Feb 14 2021 01:50 PM
Hi @kkasten
I couldn't agree more. I have paid subscriptions that I can't use at all. At this point, best way is to build my own rss widget and add it to Glance and remove the News Reader.
Feb 19 2021 01:22 AM
Aug 06 2021 09:12 AM