Best customizable news website?

In My Humble Opinion
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I used to enjoy Google News, with the ability to add custom sections and arrange them on the page the way I like, etc. Now Google has wrecked this, deleted everyone’s custom settings and pissed everyone off. WTF is with the annoying World Cup scores box that you can’t get rid of? Newsflash, Google: not everyone is gaga over sports.

I need a new news site.

Tried Bing…meh. Could not find how to create and arrange custom news sections (can it?). Gave up after about 20 mins of messing with it.

Yahoo News/My Yahoo seems pushy somehow and I don’t like how they’re trying to be all facebooky with the social networking thing. Sorry, my news is my business, I do not want to be nagged all the time to “share” shiat with others.

All I want is a good solid news site that allows me to select what content I want to see and how its arranged. I especially desire the ability to NOT see certain news catagories, like anything to do with sports or celebrities. I would LOVE to be able to program it to never show stories with certain keywords.

Does such an animal exist?

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Since the OP is looking for informed opinions, let’s move this from GQ to IMHO.

samclem Moderator

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Is BING news even customizable at all? What’s the appeal?

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I created a virtual newspaper at Newscred ( squip.newscred.com ) and I found the process easy and the results decent. YMMV.

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Yeah, Newscred seems to be the choice of a lot of ex-Google Newsers. I wasn’t in love with it but at least it’s trying which is more than I can say for Google News now.

Ask.com has an “okay” News site but I miss seeing the the little blurb along with the headline.