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Google News launches redesign in UK and India

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Posted by Scott Zuccarino, Product Manager
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Enhancements to Google News for smartphones

Monday, November 8, 2010

Posted by Arun Prasath, Tech Lead, Google Mobile NewsLast NovemberGoogle NewsgloballyCollapsed:

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Shining a Spotlight on Video News

Thursday, October 7, 2010

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Extra! Extra! Google News redesigned to be more customizable and shareable

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

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Krishna Bharat discusses the past and future of Google News

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Posted by Chris Gaither, Senior Manager, News Industry Relations

Starring stories in Google News

Monday, February 1, 2010

Posted by Jude Britto, Software Engineer, Google Newslaunched

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Fast Flip now available on Google News homepage

Friday, January 8, 2010

Posted by Jack Hebert, Matthew Watson and Corrie Scalisi, Software EngineersFast FliplaunchedaddedGoogle Newsthoughts

Exploring a new, more dynamic way of reading news with Living Stories

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Posted by Neha Singh, Software Engineer, and Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product Managercross-posted from the Official Google Blogpotential solutionsliving storyLiving Stories prototypeyour thoughtsyour commentsformat

A new face to Google News Sitemaps

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Posted by Andy Golding, Google News Software Engineerupdated instructions

Publication Label Pulldown Menu: The publication label pulldown menu no longer exists in Webmaster Tools. Instead, you should now attach the equivalent information to each individual article in your Sitemap, as described below.

Note: For previously-submitted Sitemaps in the old format, we will "remember" the last publication label you selected from the pulldown menu and use that; however, please update to the new format as soon as you can.

New tags: In place of the publication menu, there are now three tags that you can attach to each article in your Sitemap giving the equivalent information:

<publication>: Specifies the name and language of the publication that the article occurs in. Required.

<genres>: Specifies the nature of the article as a comma-separated list chosen from: PressRelease, Satire, Blog, OpEd, Opinion, and UserGenerated. Required whenever any of these properties applies to the article.

<access>: Specifies the accessibility of the article. Choices: Subscription or Registration. Required whenever either of the choices applies.

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Title tags: Article titles can be added using the <title> tag to help us identify the right title for your articles.

More options to resubmit your sitemap: In addition to re-submitting your Google News Sitemap through your Webmaster Tools account, you can now resubmit it two other ways: robots.txt or ping. Note: The first time you submit your Sitemap, always use Webmaster Tools.

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Create and Share custom News sections

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Posted by Sharad Jain and Nilesh Agrawal, Google News Software EngineersCustom sections directorycreate your own

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Monday, August 31, 2009

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A Call to News Publishers: How to Share Your Video

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Posted by Olivia Ma, YouTube News Managersubmit your site

Featured Premium Placement. YouTube news partners receive featured placement on the YouTube news page, youtube.com/news, where we feature news videos from partners related to the top news stories on Google News. In addition, if you allow your videos to be embedded, they'll be eligible to appear on Google News, which means additional exposure to all Google News users.

Cut Costs, Generate Revenue. YouTube offers free hosting for all of your video content and allows you to embed your videos anywhere on the web for free. And as an official YouTube partner, you're eligible to participate in an advertising revenue share program.

Viewership Analysis. Learn more about the people viewing and interacting with your videos. Use YouTube's Insight tool to easily discover troves of useful demographic information and understand what parts of your videos people liked or didn't like. Geographic information provided can help you focus your marketing efforts.

Wider Audience. YouTube and Google News have millions of visitors every day searching for the latest news and information. Raise awareness around your brand and reach new audiences by making your video content available on YouTube and Google News. As a YouTube partner, you can maintain your brand's look-and-feel with your own customized YouTube channel, and you can also drive traffic back to your own website.

Community. At its core, YouTube is a rich social environment that includes thousands of micro-communities. Build one around your content by encouraging people to interact through comments and video responses. Take advantage of YouTube as a social platform.

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Search by Author on Google News

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Posted by Nemanja Petrovic, Research Engineer

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More ways to see the story

Monday, May 11, 2009

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Introducing Google News Timeline

Monday, April 20, 2009

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The story, as it unfolded

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

The story on the pirate attack of a U.S. ship in Somalia this week provides a good example of when the timeline can be helpful. The graph shows the evolution of the story from the pirate takeover of the ship on April 10th to the release of the ship's captain on the 12th. The timeline also shows the evolution of media attention and coverage of the story, with a peak of nearly 3000 indexed articles written when the standoff ended and the captain was freed.

Local news in more places

Friday, March 27, 2009

Posted by Hicham Alaoui, Associate Product Marketing ManagerLast year we announced the launch of local news in the U.S., and this week we launched this feature of Google News to users in the UK, India, and Canada.

Local news sections let you keep track of current events in your area. We analyze every word in every story to understand what location the news is about and where the source is located. The top stories for a given area will be at the top of your results, and our rankings also take into account a publication's location to promote local sources for each story.

To get started, look for the local section on your front page and enter your city, state, or postal code in the local search bar, shown here:

If you don't see this section, you can also set up your local news by clicking "Personalize this page" on the top right of the page. On the menu that comes up, click "Add a local section":

Once you've clicked the link, you'll see a place to enter a postal code or city. Use the drop-down menu to choose the number of stories you'd like to see. To finish, click "Add Section" and you'll see this local section on your personalized Google News page.

As always, we're working to improve our product, and we appreciate your feedback.

New Insights for your Search

Monday, March 23, 2009

Posted by Hicham Alaoui, Associate Product Marketing ManagerGoogle Insights for Search,launchedrival soccer teams to the relative popularity of politicians.

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Adding Google News to Your Site

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Posted by Adam Feldman, Product Manager

Today we are launching a Google News-based element for the Google Search API.
With this element, you can embed a news slideshow on your page, showing headlines and previews of Google News Search results based on queries that you've selected. Here is an example of the NewsShow in action:

Adding this element to your site or blog is easy using our wizard. You select the size of the frame you want, the topics you're interested in, and the number of articles you want to show, and we'll build the code for you. Check out the documentation for more details.
If you are a webmaster or developer and have questions or feedback on using this and other APIs on your site, please join the conversation over at the Google AJAX API developer forum. You can also check out our post on the Ajax Search API Blog.

Cool Tool for News Use

Monday, November 10, 2008

Posted by Hicham Alaoui, Associate Product Marketing Manager

Our friends at the Toolbar team recently launched Google Toolbar 5 for Internet Explorer out of beta in 40 languages. To celebrate this occasion and Toolbar's upcoming eighth birthday, we upgraded our Google News Toolbar gadget: You'll now find tabs with different Google News sections embedded directly into the toolbar, so you can read the news as soon as it breaks, browse top news headlines and images, all without having to leave the site you're on:

You can click through the different categories to see the top stories in the U.S., World, Entertainment, and Sci-Tech domains. When you find something you want to read, you can click on an article to open it in a new tab, or click "all news articles" to open the Google News page containing all related items on that particular topic.

To learn more about the different features on this new release of toolbar, visit toolbar.google.com/features.

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