[icernet] Indian brain behind world's first 'automated' news site

[Arul Selvan MIC]

Just over one month ago, Google, the best known search engine on the 
World Wide Web, unveiled the advanced prototype (beta version) of a 
global free news service website, totally compiled by computer, without 
any human intervention. It was thus possible for 'news freaks' as well 
as professionals in the media to trace news stories wherever they broke 
and follow developments almost by the minute.

While evaluating the new service -  an unprecendented use of computer 
technology to create a news page 'untouched by hand' - media experts 
discovered that the new google news page almost happened by chance - 
and was the result of creative work by a 32-year-old Indian software 
engineer, Krishna Bharat, a B.Tech student of IIT Madras who went on to 
do his Ph.D in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, U.S. in 1996.

Source:
http://hinduonnet.com/2002/11/04/stories/2002110400820900.htm