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Posted by Xin Li, Engineering ManagerThe devastating earthquake hit China’s Sichuan province at 2:28 pm on May 12. I was so worried: there was no news about what had happened shortly after the earthquake, and even worse, I was unable to reach my pare…

Posted by Brandon Badger, Product ManagerIt’s part of the vision of Google News to crawl and index every word of every news story, around the world. It’s a lot of information, but we’re working on ways to make this index more specific. For example,…

Posted by David Garnick, Product ManagerThe massively destructive cyclone that struck Myanmar (Burma) has caused an extensive loss of life. However, in the wake of the cyclone, there are new crises facing the population of the country. Getting aid to t…

Posted by Lucian Cionca, Software EngineerHave you noticed that when there are a bunch of articles about the same story, we’ll group them together? I think this is one of the key features of Google News. When you’re browsing through Google News and y…

Posted by Nilesh Agrawal, Sharad Jain and Deepa Iyer, Software EngineersWe’re excited to share with you a new feature of Google News: related searches. Now, when you do a search in Google News, we’ll show a list of related searches at the bottom of the…

Posted by Håvard Kvålen, Robert Leland and Amund Tveit, Software EngineersAs we sat in our offices in Trondheim staring off at the fjord — we’re Norwegians, that’s what we do — a thought occurred to us: wouldn’t it be nice to make Google News acce…

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…