Google News Allows You To “Star” News Stories
Google News has added the ability to allow users to “star” news stories. When a user stars a story (or technically, a cluster of stories), it: Lets Google know that you’re interested in that subject. Alerts you to significant updates by putting the headline in bold, so you can get more information. Allows you to […]
Barry Schwartz on February 2, 2010 at 9:16 am | Reading time: 1 minute
Google News has added the ability to allow users to “star” news stories. When a user stars a story (or technically, a cluster of stories), it:
- Lets Google know that you’re interested in that subject.
- Alerts you to significant updates by putting the headline in bold, so you can get more information.
- Allows you to follow your 20 most recent starred stories in the “Starred” section of Google News.
Here is a picture of the new stars on Google News:
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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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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.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.