October 13th, 2008 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Arnaud Sahuguet, Product ManagerWith Google News, you can read what candidates are saying about a given topic. You can even compare what two of them are saying about the same topic. But it’s also important to hear candidates deliver their own…
Google News in Telugu
October 10th, 2008 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Kiran Gunda, Software EngineerDuring this festive season we are excited to welcome the newest member of the Google News family – Google News in Telugu. Like all Google News editions, the Telugu edition gathers news from several Telugu sources…
September 29th, 2008 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Benoit Lafortune, Sr. Strategist, News Online TeamWe’re thrilled to announce that we’ve launched Google News in yet another language: Polish! With this launch, Google News is now available in 23 languages and 48 country editions.In addition …
September 25th, 2008 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Jack Hebert, Software EngineerWhile political consistency (or inconsistency) can be funny, as John Stewart pointed out in a recent episode of the Daily Show, it can also be a serious political matter.With upcoming elections in the United Stat…
September 24th, 2008 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Rohit Ananthakrishna, Software EngineerOver the last few weeks we’ve presented a number of new language launches for Google News: 9 new editions in Africa, a Turkish edition and a Malayalam language edition in India. We’re proud to present th…
Google News in മലയാളം (Malayalam)
September 11th, 2008 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Cibu Johny and Deepak Raghuwanshi, Software Engineersഎല്ലാവര്ക്കും ഓണാശംസകള്!To all our Malayalam-speaking readers, we want to wish you Onashamsakal. We are very happy to mark this festive sea…
Update on United Airlines story
September 8th, 2008 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Josh Cohen, Business Product ManagerAggregators like Google News were today the subject of news – this time pertaining to a 2002 story regarding United Airlines. For those of you who are interested in the nuts and bolts of why this was ind…
Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time
September 8th, 2008 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Punit Soni, Product ManagerToday, we announced that we’re launching an effort to give Internet users everywhere more tools to discover, explore, and celebrate much more of our journalistic heritage by digitizing archival newspapers and making…
September 2nd, 2008 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by David Garnick, Product ManagerThe Republican National Convention is underway in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Google News is taking you there. Well, maybe not literally there, but as close as we can get you! For the duration of the convention, you…
August 20th, 2008 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Mahesh KM, Software EngineerOne of our most important goals for Google News is to expose readers to a diverse range of journalistic viewpoints. This is why we think it’s important to have hundreds, if not thousands of different sources for im…
More African countries now have their own edition of Google News
August 14th, 2008 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Divon Lan, Product ManagerGoogle News is a truly international project, spanning dozens of countries and over 20 languages. But that still leaves plenty of countries without their own dedicated edition of Google News.Today, we are delighted t…
Google brings News to its Turkish users
August 12th, 2008 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Mustafa Icil, Country Marketing Manager, TurkeyToday, we’re delighted to announce the launch of Google News in Turkey. Now, Turkish-speaking users in Turkey and around the world are a click away from the latest news in their native language. …
Google News goes to the Summer Games
August 8th, 2008 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Lara Rennie, Software Engineer, TrondheimWe have software engineers from almost every country in the world, so we know as well as anyone how passionate folks can get about their hometown athletes. This year, the Google News team is doing our…
Google News: Now in தமிழ் (Tamil)
August 6th, 2008 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Vinodh Kumar, Kiran Gunda and Prasanna Meda, Software Engineersவணக்கம். தமிழில் செய்திகள்! (Greetings, News In Tamil!)It’s not every day that you get to launch a product in a more than 2,000-year-…
Testing… testing… is this on?
June 19th, 2008 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Frank Harris, Senior User Experience DesignerOver the course of the next few weeks, you may notice a few changes to Google News… or maybe not. You see, we’ll be running some experiments on the look and feel of our site, based on an accumula…