Google Makes Reading News a Game

Internet mastermind realize you could get people to do almost anything ( like , say , share their trite restaurant visits with booster ) if you make it a pseudo - game . Now Google ’s piling on ! Reading tidings will let you collect badge and level up .

Google News ’ young badge system will ostensibly let you organize your browsing habit better , but I think it ’s good to say that this is mostly about tapping into our perhaps primeval life - drive to rack up arbitrary points . To use Google ’s own exemplar , frequent reading of hoops articles will clear you a ‘ Basketball ’ badge , which you’re able to then level up with repeated meter reading .

There are more than 500 badge to unlock — presumably for extremely niche topics like sexy knitting and the Micronesian legislative assembly — so you better get readin ’ if you require to visually dominate your friends in current consequence pulmonary tuberculosis . One caution : you need Web History swop on , so seclusion pros might not want to stitch these badges on . [ Google Blog ]