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Posted by Ryan Sands, Google News Online TeamLast September on this blog, we announced a new initiative to digitize newspapers and make them accessible and searchable online.We’ve recently updated our index, quadrupling the number of articles included …

Posted by Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product ManagerWe’re constantly talking with web publishers, including those in the news industry, about how their content is indexed by search engines. Last week in Europe, a group of newspaper and magazine publis…

Posted by Ryan Sands, Google News Online TeamThirty years ago this week, Sony introduced the first Walkman to consumers in Japan. Released on July 1, 1979, the model TPS-L2 was the first in a long history of portable stereo devices. The shape, size, an…

Posted by Olivia Ma, YouTube News ManagerWe’re always looking for ways to enhance the way people consume the news, and we have some improvements planned over the next few months. To get things started, Google News and YouTube are teaming up to help new…

Posted by Nemanja Petrovic, Research EngineerThe Google News home page is a good place to go to find headlines from publications around the world. But what if you’re interested in the work of a specific journalist in addition to perspectives from diffe…

Posted by Frank Harris and Jason Morrow, User Experience DesignersLast month marked the 7-year anniversary of Google News. We thought we’d celebrate this year by refreshing the look and feel of the site with a new design that we launched today.First o…

Posted by David Ganzhorn and Corrie Scalisi, Software EngineersLast Thursday we launched a new format for story pages on Google News. These are the pages you see when you click the “all [#] news articles” link of each cluster of articles which cover th…

Posted by Ryan Sands, Google News Online TeamIn the past few weeks, media outlets have exploded with stories about the growing number of cases of influenza A(H1N1). Also known as Swine Flu, the illness is being watched closely by governments and people…

Posted by Jack Hebert, Software EngineerGoogle News aggregates stories from over 25,000 news sources updated continuously. Starting today, we’re offering users an additional channel to follow the news by posting links to top stories as they become avai…

Posted by Andy Hertzfeld, Software EngineerAt Google, we spend a lot of time thinking about how to organize information. Today, we’re announcing Google News Timeline–a new feature on Google Labs that organizes many different types of search results on…

Posted by Nandini Seshadri, Software EngineerWhen you visit Google News, you see the day’s top news stories organized by section. You can then click through to any number of sources to read the news from different perspectives. Yet by their succinct na…

Posted by Hicham Alaoui, Associate Product Marketing Manager

Last 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 tr…

Posted by Hicham Alaoui, Associate Product Marketing ManagerSome of you may already be familiar with Google Insights for Search, which launched last August.Much like Google Trends, you can use Insights for Search to analyze search volume patterns over …

Posted by Josh Cohen, Business Product ManagerWe’re excited to announce today that 8 news agencies, which are members of the European Pressphoto Agency, will be joining our existing Hosted News partners. As with our existing agreements, these new part…

Posted by Josh Cohen, Business Product ManagerAs we mentioned last month, for some time we’ve been experimenting with a variety of ads on Google News. Our goal with all these programs is to provide the best experience for users, advertisers and publish…