| Company | |
| Website | news.google.com |
| Blog | googlenewsblog.bl... |
| Stage | Development |
| Launched | 12/08 |
Google News is a computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines from more than 4,500 English-language news sources worldwide, groups similar stories together and displays them according to each reader’s personalized interests.
Traditionally, news readers first pick a publication and then look for headlines that interest them. We do things a little differently, with the goal of offering our readers more personalized options and a wider variety of perspectives from which to choose. Google News offers links to several articles on every story, so readers can first decide what subject interests them and then select which publishers’ accounts of each story they’d like to read.
Articles are selected and ranked by computers that evaluate, among other things, how often and on what sites a story appears online. We also rank based on certain characteristics of news content such as freshness, location, relevance and diversity. As a result, stories are sorted without regard to political viewpoint or ideology and you can choose from a wide variety of perspectives on any given story. We’ll continue to improve Google News by adding sources, fine-tuning our technology and providing Google News to readers in even more regions.
Google News includes local news services, Alerts, news sent to a mobile phone, and a news archive search.
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Added: 3/5/09
