Posted by Jack Hebert, Akash Nanavati and Natasha Mohanty, Software EngineersBe it poetry or public speech, words matter.Consider this election season. All along the campaign trail we have heard candidates’ thoughts on the future of health care, the wa…
Posted by Greta Ghizzo, News Support TeamLast week we launched a new form that will make it easier for users around the world to report an issue with Google News. With the Report an Issue page you’ll be able to send us a quick note to inform us about…
Posted by Andy Golding, Software EngineerOften publishers ask us why Google News didn’t include one of their articles, or skipped the image associated with an article. In the search for answers, we’ve noticed that there’s a lot of confusion about how w…
Posted by Cliff, Ted and Namita, the Comments TeamIn the several months since the launch of Comments, we’ve made some improvements that we wanted to let you know about. For those of you who aren’t familiar, the Comments feature allows people mentioned …
Posted by Inbal Drukker, News Support TeamThe Google News Support team works with news publishers and with people who use Google News. We’re proud to be the group that can address your concerns and questions, and help get your feedback implemented into…
by Yaron Binur, Product ManagerAs we’re now in early March, it occurs to me that it’s still not too late to look back on the past year — or to look ahead to what’s to come in 2008. I look back over last year, and feel happy about what we’ve accomplish…
Posted by Gina Bonzani, News Support TeamTwo weeks ago we launched a new feature that lets you create local sections on your personalized Google News page. After some feedback we’ve been getting, we wanted to clarify a couple of issues. We want to make…
Posted by Lucy Zhang, Software EngineerAs one of the first engineers assigned to Google News, I’m excited to kick off the inaugural Day in the Life (“DITL”) post. Over the next few months, we hope to bring you a unique window into the world of Google N…
Posted by Andre Rohe and Rohit Ananthakrishna, Software EngineersSomething you already know about Google News is that we crawl thousands of sources from around the world. This means you get as many different perspectives on a story from many perspectiv…
Posted by Josh Cohen, Business Product ManagerIf you somehow escaped US electioneering up to this point, you probably won’t today, Super Tuesday, when 24 states choose their candidates for the fall election. This will be the largest number of primaries…
Posted by Greta Ghizzo Van Everen, News Support TeamIf you’re looking for an easy way to let us know what new features you’d like in Google News, look no further. Today, we’re launching a new feature request form that will make this process a lot easie…
Posted by David Garnick, News Engineering TeamI’m a bit of a junkie for political news, and of course I follow elections. The U.S. section of Google News covers a broad range of topics that are of interest to a national audience; thus, typically, few s…
Posted by Sadeesh Duraisamy & Prasanna Meda, Software EngineersWe’re excited to share a new feature for Google News India: you can now get the latest cricket scores right on the front page! If there’s a cricket match going on somewhere in the world…
Posted by Sheng Yu and Sean Wan, Software EngineersWant to find articles from a specific news source? You may not know of some tricks to make Google News do the work for you. Try using our site operator along with a keyword, like this: [site:iht.com Pa…
Posted by Sharad Jain, Software EngineerThe goal of Google News has always been to offer as many perspectives on a story as possible to help you better understand current events. That’s why we crawl thousands of sources from around the world. We try to…