According to Nana, she used what she has to get what she needs after her boyfriend who was sponsoring her education abandoned her midway following lies told against her by jealous friends. Her words: "My boyfriend whom I met when I went to visit an uncle who was sponsoring my education. We had agreed to get married as soon as possible. Then some people i regard has a friends started peddling wicked lies against me without confirming if they were saying was true or false, he called it quits just like that. They told him I had an incurable disease. So, i decided to help myself because my parents cannot do anything for me. We are poor. My father used to be a driver but now he is unemployed while my mother is a full time housewife. Sometimes, she sells vegetables", They were paying me GH¢150 a month and you work late hours. But if you go out to hustle in the night, you can get that kind of money within a day or two. About 600 men slept...
The world's largest search engine has come under increasing criticism from media outlet, mainly because of its algorithms一 a sets of instructions followed by computers一 that newspapers have often blamed for plummeting online traffic and the industry's declined.
Explaining some of the changes in a blog post, Google's vice president of news Richard Gingras said stories that were critically important and labour- intensive 一requiring experienced investigative skills for example 一would will promoted.
Articles that demonstrated "Original, in- depth and investigative reporting," would be given highest possible rating by reviewers, he wrote on Thursdad.
These reviewers 一roughly 10,000 whose feedback contributes to Google's algorithm 一will also determine the publisher's overall reputation for original reporting, promoting outlets that have been awarded Pulitzer prizes, for example.
It remains to be seen how such changes will affect news outlets, especially smaller online sites and local newspapers, who have borne the brunt of the changing media landscape.
And as noted by the technology website TechCrunch, it is hard to define exactly what original reporting is: many online outlets build on "scoops" or exclusives with their own original information, a complexity an algorithm may have a hard time picking through.
The Verge 一another technology publication 一wrote the emphasis originality could exacerbate and already frenetic online news cycle by making it lucrative to get breaking news even faster and without proper verification.
The change comes as Google continues to face criticism for its impact on the news media.
Many publishers say the tech giant's algorithms 一 which remains a sources of mysterious frustration for anyone outside Google 一reward clickbail, and allow investigative and original stories to disappear online.
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