NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source

August 20, 2008 | Source: TechCrunch

NewsCred, the news aggregator that ranks stories by the credibility of their source, has launched to the public.

Instead of relying on popularity, as many social news sites do, NewsCred instead allows users to rate each story, author, and publication’s credibility, which is then plugged into an algorithm to determine the site’s prominent headlines.