Google News Now Ten Years Old

By Barry Schwartz

Published: September 24, 2012 at 9:08 am

Google News Birthday On Saturday, Google News turned ten years old – launching on September 22, 2002, in reaction to the September 11th events.

Google News was a response to enable people to find and search for news with multiple view points, opinions and perspectives.

Since then, Google News has added over 50,000 news sources with 72 editions in 30 languages. Google News attracts over one billion unique users a week!

We’ve covered the news portal and search engine well over 150 times here in our Google News category. From new features to bugs to optimization techniques. Such as Google News readopting the keywords tag and enticing journalists to ranking factors and killing fast-flip.

To celebrate, Google News shared with us the top stories over the past decade:

Google News Top Stories

Happy Birthday Google News!

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About the author

Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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