Intro
The internet has torn down the barriers that existed between people and information, effectively democratizing access to human knowledge.
At InsightfulSteel.com, we believe that more information means more choice, greater freedom, and ultimately more power for the people. InsightfulSteel.com is our attempt to facilitate knowledge sharing, promote best practices, and support innovation within the industry. This means displaying the most important articles on our homepage, so users don’t have to search hard to find them.
The key to this project is respecting copyright laws. InsightfulSteel.com never displays more than: the title, one fragment, and a small picture of the article. If people want to read the entire piece, they need to click on the title, which takes them to the original website where they can read the full article. InsightfulSteel.com is similar to the Google search engine in that it collects all the information published on the internet, creates an index of these data, and serves them through a simple web interface.
Our goal is to provide users with relevant and objective results, so we select our top articles automatically, with a computer algorithm, without human intervention.
Currently, InsightfulSteel.com includes articles from more than 50 sources, and every day we receive more requests to be included in our index.
We believe that such aggregators are truly beneficial for the sources as well because aggregators drive internet traffic to their pages. By collecting articles from multiple sources in one place, InsightfulSteel.com makes reading relevant articles more accessible and interesting, encourages people to read more, and benefits the publishing industry as a whole.
How Does InsightfulSteel.com Work?
InsightfulSteel.com organizes the articles so that articles from different sources about the same category appears in one group.
Publishers often ask us how we decide which group and what type of articles appears on the homepage of InsightfulSteel.com.
The short answer would be: We don’t decide.
The headlines on the homepage of InsightfulSteel.com are entirely selected by a computer formula, based on several factors, including how often and on which sites the story appears. Essentially, we calculate the number of original articles published by editors to determine the size of such a story, whose weight is also calculated based on how recent the story is.
How often are the pages of InsightfulSteel.com refreshed?
The pages of InsightfulSteel.com are refreshed 24 times throughout the day, or every 1 hour, so here, in one place, you can always find the most popular articles
Content of the Articles on InsightfulSteel.com
InsightfulSteel.com does not create headlines or any other part of an article.
The entire process is automated and carried out by a computer. From reading the articles, analyzing them, grouping, determining the top articles to their display.
There is no human intervention in the whole process!
If you want to send feedback about an article you saw on InsightfulSteel.com, you will need to directly connect with the source of the article.
If a source deletes an article from its website, or if the source is not working at all for a certain period, you will receive an error after clicking on the link on InsightfulSteel.com. We apologize for any inconvenience. Please be assured that we are working on improving our technology. In the meantime, we encourage you to seek articles on the same topic by reading related articles from the same category.
InsightfulSteel.com is made up solely of computer algorithms. As a result, occasionally you may see an image that appears out of context. We are constantly working on improving our algorithms for automatic image selection.
Also, all errors in the texts that appear on InsightfulSteel.com are the responsibility of the sources, even if the source corrects the error on their page. (we most often take the article only once, and then continue to take new articles.)
Contact
InsightfulSteel.com is continuously in a development phase. Any idea, remark, or comment is welcome, and you can send them to: info@insightfulsteel.com
