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Posted by Mariko Suzuki, Google News StrategistDo you have any feedback or suggestions you would like to share with the Google News Team? We always love to hear from you, so we made submitting feedback much easier.Simply click the “Send Feedback” l…

Posted by Scott Zuccarino, Product ManagerWho just endorsed whom? What do the latest polls say? How much money did they raise this quarter? Keeping up with the 2012 elections in the U.S. and staying abreast of breaking developments can be quite a task …

Posted by Erich Schmidt, Software EngineerOver the past few months, myriad sites across the web (including Google News) have adopted the +1 button to help start conversations. But there hasn’t been an easy way for signed-in users to see what news art…

Posted by Eric Weigle, Software EngineerGreat journalism takes more than facts and figures — it takes skilled reporters to knit together compelling stories. Knowing who wrote an article can help readers understand the article’s context and quality, se…

By Jayakumar Hoskere, Software EngineerWhen a big story breaks, there are often over a thousand articles written about the news event. At Google News, we work hard to surface the most relevant and interesting content to you — so you can spend less tim…

Posted by Panchapagesan Krishnamurthy, Software EngineerHalloween is almost here and we’re celebrating early. No trick — just a treat. As of now, you can access Google News in the Google Dashboard. This gives you the ability to see basic information a…

Posted by Yaroslav Kurovtsev, Software Engineer, Google Translate To help bridge language barriers between you and the news of interest to you from around the world — and to bring you more diverse perspectives on foreign events — we’ve added a new …

Posted by Scott Zuccarino, Product ManagerStarting today, we’ll be rolling out changes to some international versions of Google News in an effort to unify the News experience across editions. As in the U.S. version, these changes offer richer visual …

Posted by David Smydra, Product Specialist and Justin Kosslyn, Product ManagerEvery day, news organizations and journalists around the world dedicate significant time and resources toward some of the most critical types of coverage: exceptional origina…

Posted by David Smydra, Google News Product Specialist

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Google News recently updated our infrastructure to crawl with Google’s primary user-agent, Googlebot. What does this mean? Very little to most publi…

Posted by Arun Prasath, Tech Lead, Mobile Google News

Alongside working on improving the Google News design for smartphones, we have also been looking into enhancing our offering for tablet devices. Today, we are launching a few minor enhancements to …

(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)News organizations tell stories online in ways that bring together the best of traditional and digital journalism, whether that involves long-form investigative features, compelling photo slideshows or interact…

Posted by Jasson Schrock, User Experience DesignerBeginning today in the U.S. English edition of News, you may notice a few changes in the look and feel. This is part of a Google-wide initiative to improve your experience, and today we’re happy to ex…

Posted by Natasha Mohanty, Engineer, Google News(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)On Google News, the average reader of political news has read 20 articles about politics in the last six months. Where do you stand?Starting today, in the U.S. ed…

(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog and the Google Public Policy Blog)Over the past few months, we’ve announced $5 million in grants to be distributed by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the International Press Inst…