# Best customizable news website?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-customizable-news-website/545874>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 7, 2010, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-customizable-news-website/545874 "2010-07-07T16:29:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Gruntled](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/34f0e0/32.png) [@Gruntled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gruntled)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-customizable-news-website/545874/1 "2010-07-07T16:29:24Z")

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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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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-customizable-news-website/545874/2 "2010-07-07T23:43:57Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Gruntled](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/34f0e0/32.png) [@Gruntled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gruntled)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-customizable-news-website/545874/3 "2010-07-08T14:09:41Z")

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

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**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-customizable-news-website/545874/4 "2010-07-08T20:36:59Z")

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

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**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-customizable-news-website/545874/5 "2010-07-08T20:58:07Z")

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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](http://Ask.com) has an “okay” News site but I miss seeing the the little blurb along with the headline.