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Posted by Krishna Bharat, founder and engineering head, and Chris Beckmann, product manager, Google News(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)Today we celebrate the eighth birthday of Google News. Not long after the tragic events of September 11, 2…

Posted by Krishna Bharat, founder and engineering head, and Chris Beckmann, product manager, Google News(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)Today we celebrate the eighth birthday of Google News. Not long after the tragic events of September 11, 2…

Posted by Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product ManagerWe’ve extended our existing licensing agreement with the Associated Press that permits us to host its content on Google properties such as Google News. We look forward to future collaborations, inc…

Posted by Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product ManagerWe’ve extended our existing licensing agreement with the Associated Press that permits us to host its content on Google properties such as Google News. We look forward to future collaborations, inc…

Posted by Chris Beckmann, Product ManagerTwo weeks ago we gave the Google News homepage a new look and feel with enhanced customization, discovery and sharing. This redesign was our biggest since Google News launched in beta in 2002.Some of you told us…

Posted by Chris Beckmann, Product ManagerTwo weeks ago we gave the Google News homepage a new look and feel with enhanced customization, discovery and sharing. This redesign was our biggest since Google News launched in beta in 2002.Some of you told us…

Posted by David Smydra, Google News Online TeamGrowing up a diehard Pistons fan in Detroit, Michigan, I was taught two things about the sport of basketball. First, always cheer against the Boston Celtics. Second, always cheer against the Los Angeles La…

Posted by Chris Gaither, Senior Manager, News Industry RelationsKrishna Bharat invented Google News more than eight years ago. His aim: help people easily find multiple perspectives on the news of the day by using computers to group together links to s…

Posted by Benoit Lafortune, Sr. Strategist Google News, and Olivia Ma, YouTube News ManagerVideo has always been a unique storytelling tool, especially useful when reporting the news. From raw, citizen-reported videos from the streets of Tehran, to stu…

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…