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May. 6, 2008 at 9:00am by Barry Schwartz
Related Searches Comes To Google News
The Google News Blog announced the addition of "related searches" at the bottom of Google News search results. Related searches are "automatically generated based on an algorithm to determine terms related to your search," said Google. It might be a good way to learn what is related in the news...
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May. 2, 2008 at 8:55am by Barry Schwartz
Google News Comes To iPhone, Plus It Goes Global With Interface
The Google News Blog announced that they have launched a special interface for the iPhone. To access it, all you need to do is go to Google.com on your iPhone or iPod Touch and navigate to the news section via the "more" link at the top right, or you can...
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Apr. 17, 2008 at 9:14am by Barry Schwartz
Google News Makes Quotes More Discoverable
The Google News Blog announced that they will now display quotes within articles when they think your query and the content warrants it. For example, a search on Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, returns a quote at the top of the Google News search page. Here is a screen capture:...
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Apr. 3, 2008 at 8:34am by Barry Schwartz
Google News: Fact & Fiction Edition
The Google News blog has an excellent post on the truths and myths of how Google News works. Here is the short version:...
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Mar. 24, 2008 at 8:38am by Barry Schwartz
Google News Makes Commenting More Visible
The Google News Blog announced that they have made two changes to the commenting feature, in order to make it more visible to their users....
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Feb. 7, 2008 at 9:01am by Greg Sterling
Google News' New Local Angle
Just as Ask is introducing "BigNews," Google is offering local news. The Google News Blog says that the new capabilities allow users to "create a local section for any city, state or country in the world." As the Google News Blog admits, Google isn't the first to do this. Topix.com...
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Feb. 5, 2008 at 2:41pm by Greg Sterling
Google Elections: Super Tuesday Map And Twitter Updates
Google's LatLong blog has two posts relevant to today's "Super Tuesday" US presidential primaries. The first is about a Super Tuesday primary map that presents a range of content, including video, on election results -- as Google has in the last couple of primaries. The map also features real-time Twitter...
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Dec. 24, 2007 at 8:59am by Barry Schwartz
Google News Adds US Elections Section
The Google News Blog announced they have set up a special section for 2008 US presidential elections. The elections area is featured on the home page, and there is now a link to "Elections" on the left hand side navigation. In addition to the Elections section on Google News, a...
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Dec. 18, 2007 at 9:21am by Barry Schwartz
Google News Improves News Source Feature
The Google News Blog announced that Google News has improved how they handle finding news from specific sources....
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Dec. 12, 2007 at 9:55am by Barry Schwartz
High-Tech Christmas Cookies? Nah, Just A Google News Glitch
A reader spotted a pretty strange story in the Google News Sci/Tech area. Mixed alongside stories about AskEraser, the Space Shuttle launch, and "w00t" being crowned as word of the year was a recipe for Grasshopper Chocolate Chunk Cookies, the lead item for a cluster of Christmas cookie stories....
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Dec. 10, 2007 at 8:52am by Barry Schwartz
Google News Updates Algorithm: Sourcing Story Updates & Local Context To News
The Google News Blog announced they have updated their algorithms to become more relevant and fresh with news....
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Nov. 7, 2007 at 9:08am by Greg Sterling
Newspaper Editor: Google Is 'Hugely Dangerous'
An editor at the UK's Times Online repeated to a newspaper conference the oft-told theme: Google was 'hugely dangerous' to the newspaper industry. She was apparently using Google as a bit of a stand-in for the Internet as a whole and its impact on the industry. Newspapers in Europe have...
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Oct. 19, 2007 at 10:21pm by Vanessa Fox
Google News Launches Facebook Application
Google News has announced a Facebook application that allows users to specify custom topics to receive news about from within Facebook. When you add the application, you can choose from a predefined set up topics (that Google News calls "news sections") or you can enter keywords. This seems to work...
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Sep. 25, 2007 at 8:44am by Barry Schwartz
Google News May Index Yahoo Ads
BlogStorm has found that Google News might actually index Yahoo contextual ads....
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Sep. 21, 2007 at 8:28am by Barry Schwartz
First Click Free: Accessing Subscription-Based Articles For Free Via Google News
The Google News Blog wrote about the First click free program that allows publishers to let readers pass registration and subscription barriers, if they come from Google News. I am sure you have seen this in action. You see an article, you click on it from Google News and you...
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Aug. 31, 2007 at 1:08pm by Danny Sullivan
Google News Now Hosting Wire Stories & Promises Better Variety In Results
Today, Google News will begin offering articles from several major wire services and news agencies hosted on its own site, rather than sending readers away from Google. The move is part of licensing agreements that have been stuck over the past year. Google News is also promising better duplicate story...
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Aug. 21, 2007 at 5:08pm by Barry Schwartz
Google News Adds News Videos
The Google News blog announced that they are now embedding videos within Google News from several sources. Google News currently syndicates videos from CBS, Reuters, and a number of local Hearst TV stations and uses YouTube's player to display the videos within the Google News search results. Google says they...
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Aug. 8, 2007 at 7:14pm by Danny Sullivan
Q&A On The New Google News Comments
Google News To Newsmakers: Send Us Your Comments from me earlier covers the new system that Google unveiled today allowing for comments on news stories. I've now had a chance to talk briefly with Google News business product manager Josh Cohen about the system, to better understand its goals and...
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Aug. 8, 2007 at 10:40am by Danny Sullivan
Google News To Newsmakers: Send Us Your Comments
Weird. That's the only way I can describe it. Google News is asking people who are in news stories to email them comments about the story, which will be associated with those articles. From the Google News Blog post:...
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Jul. 19, 2007 at 9:32am by Barry Schwartz
Google News Expands Help Center For Publishers
The Google News Blog announced they have expanded the Google News help section for publishers. The new help section has a wealth of information for those interesting in submitting content to Google News, as well as troubleshooting documents on issues with content already in Google News. I should also note...
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Jun. 26, 2007 at 9:47am by Barry Schwartz
New "Google News Image Version" Of Google News
Google Blogoscoped reports that Google News has added a link to the left bar that enables you to view an image version of Google News. I suspect Google found out that a picture, really does, tells a thousand words. If you mouse over an image, the news on the right...
