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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…

Posted by Maile Ohye, Developer Programs Tech Lead[cross-posted from the Google Webmaster Central Blog] During my stint on the “How Google Works Tour: Seattle”, I heard plenty of questions regarding News Search from esteemed members of the press, …

Posted by Corrie Scalisi and Ari Shotland, Software EngineersLike many of our users, we were very excited when Google Suggest was incorporated into Google.com almost a year ago. The feature provides real-time suggestions while you search.Today, we’re h…

Posted by Ryan Sands, Google News Online TeamA few minutes ago, the United States Senate voted 68-31 in favor of confirming Judge Sonia Sotomayor as the newest addition to the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Sotomayor’s confirmation followed three days of de…

Posted by Abe Epton, Publisher Support TeamGoogle News publishers have long made use of Webmaster Tools to submit and update their News sitemaps, as well as learn more about how Google is crawling their site. Recently, the Webmaster Tools site underwen…

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…