PushMe Is Moving Toward Primary Sources, Not Recycled Articles
Better alerts start with better inputs. If a system spends too much time crawling recycled wrappers, low-value filing feeds, or endless query-generated mirrors, users get more noise and less confidence.
We just tightened PushMe ingestion around that reality. The goal is simple: more original sources, fewer recycled articles, and fewer duplicate stories pretending to be fresh reporting.
Direct and official feeds now get more crawl budget. Derived feeds like watch-generated Google News searches, filing churn, and generic newswire mirrors get less.
What Was Wrong
The old ingest mix still had too much recycled material in it. That showed up as Google News wrapper URLs, repetitive query feeds, filing-heavy sources, and articles that looked new only because they arrived through a different wrapper.
That is bad for a user-facing alert product. It wastes crawl budget, inflates weak stories, and makes it harder for a truly original report or official release to surface quickly.
What Changed
- Direct feeds now rank above derived feeds during ingest selection.
- Derived feeds are capped harder per run, so they cannot dominate a cycle.
- Derived duplicates are skipped when the same story already exists from a more direct publisher in the recent window.
- Several low-value GlobeNewswire and SEC filing feeds were deactivated.
- New direct feeds were added for GitHub, Cloudflare, AWS, NVIDIA, and CISA.
Why This Matters for Users
PushMe is not trying to be a giant article archive. It is trying to notice important developments early and route them into watches, tickers, and alerts with as little synthetic noise as possible.
That means a first-party update from a vendor blog, an official advisory, or a direct newsroom feed should usually beat a recycled echo of the same story. It also means we should stop burning ingest budget on feeds that mainly restate what better sources already said.
What We Added
Recent direct additions include feeds like:
- GitHub Blog
- Cloudflare Blog
- AWS News Blog
- NVIDIA Blog
- CISA News
These are not perfect substitutes for independent reporting. They do serve a different purpose: they give PushMe faster access to the original statement, changelog, advisory, or vendor acknowledgment before the recycled coverage pile grows around it.
What We Still Need to Improve
Some derived feeds still exist because they support user-specific watch coverage. We are not pretending that problem is fully solved. They are just colder now, and less able to crowd out better sources.
The next improvement is structural: separating user-watch discovery feeds from the main source-quality lane so primary-source crawling stays clean even when long-tail watch coverage grows.
The Standard We Want
A good PushMe alert should feel like it started from a real source, not from a wrapper of a wrapper of a wrapper. That is the standard we are pushing the system toward.
If you use PushMe to track outages, policy changes, market events, or geopolitical developments, that source quality matters more than almost any UI tweak. This change is part of making the product feel sharper where it counts: in the event stream itself.