Timeline View: Show Important News Stories on a topic over a longer period of time

sahil48

Many times, when I read through the news, I find that I have not been keeping up with it, and am looking for a timeline of the news stories leading up to a news article. It would be great to have an option to show a timeline in the news section or separate section that shows news stories in a chronological view for a topic. Instead of relying on the article to provide brief context, you can investigate it in more depth by looking at articles centered on a certain context behind a news story.

Vlad

sahil48 Does sort by time not work for this? Any examples where this already exists in a search engine?

sahil48

Not really. But there are websites like https://www.slow-journalism.com/ Delayed Gratification that try to take a bigger picture view of the news that has happened.

Considering that Kagi only shows 30 results, I thought a Lens to weigh results from different times or results over a period of time equally would be useful to provide a more representative sampling of results over a time period and help in getting over recency bias that can plague many search results.

Vlad

sahil48 It is hard to imagine what the end result looks like. I checked DG and it seems to be just a magazine with some long reads?

sahil48

I think something like this or google trendlines (https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F030q7&date=now%207-d) for investigating news on a specific topic. A graph that shows hits with a timeline showing number of matches, where:

You can select a certain date to see matching results from that time.
You can select a date range in the chart, and Kagi will show the 20 or 30 most popular result from different days in chronological order.

By the way, what backend service do you use for Kagi Feedback? It is really nicely designed.

sahil48

Also, Google News used to have a timeline feature for your reference that focused on notable news stories over a span of time.