Posted by Eric Zhang, Software EngineerFor the last few months we’ve been talking with publishers about ways to make it easier for them to use Living Stories, our experimental format for displaying news coverage, on their own websites. Today we’re …
Posted by Andy Golding, Google News Software EngineerAlmost five months ago, we announced a redesign for our Google News Sitemap. We wanted to give publishers plenty of advance notice so they could make a smooth transition to the new format.This transi…
Posted by Chris Gaither, Senior Manager, Global Communications & Public AffairsThis week, hundreds of newsroom leaders from across the country are gathered in Washington DC for the American Society of News Editors’ annual conference. The theme of thi…
Posted by Neha Singh, Software Engineer, and Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product ManagerFor the past two months, small teams of reporters and editors from the New York Times and Washington Post have been experimenting with Living Stories, a new format …
Posted by Jude Britto, Software Engineer, Google NewsA couple of months back, we launched the Custom Sections Directory feature in Google News to allow users to set up sections on topics of their interest, and to share them with other users.Today, we a…
Posted by Andy Golding and Kiran Gunda, Software EngineersIf you read news online, you’ve probably noticed that articles aren’t static. They often change over time, to reflect things like typo fixes, shifts in emphasis, new information or corrections o…
Posted by Jack Hebert, Matthew Watson and Corrie Scalisi, Software EngineersToday you may notice a change to the Google News home page: Near the bottom, we’re now displaying stories from Google Fast Flip, the article-reading service we launched in Sept…
Posted by David Smydra, Google News Online TeamCrowded shopping malls, radio stations pumping songs about sleigh bells and chestnuts, inclement weather from coast to coast — all signs point to one explanation. We’re smack in the middle of the holiday …
Posted by Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product ManagerThere are more than 25,000 publishers from around the world in Google News today. That’s because Google News is a great source of readers, sending publishers about 1 billion clicks every month. Each …
Posted by Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product ManagerAs newspapers consider charging for access to their online content, some publishers have asked: Should we put up pay walls or keep our articles in Google News and Google Search? In fact, they can do …
Posted by Andy Golding, Google News Software EngineerGiven the feedback we get from publishers, we’ve redesigned our interface to make Google News Sitemaps more flexible and easier to submit. [As a reminder, a Google News Sitemap is a file created by p…
Posted by Sharad Jain and Nilesh Agrawal, Google News Software EngineersToday, Google News is making it even easier to follow the latest stories on whatever subjects interest you. We are happy to announce our Custom sections directory, which gives user…
Posted by Mikey Levine, Software engineerLast year we announced the launch of local news in the U.S., and later in the UK, India, Canada and Germany. Today we’re delighted to let you know that we’re making this feature available for France.The Local ne…
Posted by Rawan Hakeem, Google News Online TeamAs you may know, we’ve always included some blogs from news organizations in Google News. However, we’ve heard from some of our users that the way we displayed these blogs in Google News was not very clear…
Posted by William Kanaan, Middle East and North Africa Product ManagerWe’re delighted to announce the launch of four new Arabic editions of Google News for Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Users in these countries can now acc…