Posted by David Smydra, Google News Product Specialist (Cross-posted on the Webmaster Central Blog) Google News recently updated our infrastructure to crawl with Google’s primary user-agent, Googlebot. What does this mean? Very little to most publishers. Any news organizations that wish to opt out of Google News can continue to do so: Google News will [...]
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Posted by Eric Zhang, Software Engineer For 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 releasing a Living Stories plugin and theme for WordPress. Now anyone who publishes through [...]
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Posted by Benoit Lafortune, Sr. Strategist Google News, and Olivia Ma, YouTube News Manager Video has always been a unique storytelling tool, especially useful when reporting the news. From raw, citizen-reported videos from the streets of Tehran, to student documentaries highlighting under-reported issues in local communities, or investigative reporting done by professional news outlets, just [...]
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Posted by Chris Gaither, Senior Manager, News Industry Relations Krishna 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 similar stories. Aside from a two-year stint in India to start our research and [...]
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Posted by David Smydra, Google News Online Team Growing 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 Lakers. Fortunately, this was an easy thing for me to do: the Pistons beat [...]
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Posted by by Kevin Stolt, Software Engineer There’s an old saying that all news is local. But all news is personal too—we connect with it in different ways depending on our interests, where we live, what we do and a lot of other factors. Today we’re revamping the Google News homepage with several changes designed [...]
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Posted by Chris Beckmann, Product Manager Two 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 that you really liked it, especially how the “News for you” [...]
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Posted by Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product Manager We’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, including on ways Google and AP can work together to create a better user experience and new [...]
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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, 2001, we started building and testing Google News with the aim of helping you find current [...]
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Posted by Natasha Mohanty, Google News Software Engineer Today in the U.S. we’re launching a new section in Google News called “Spotlight Video” that showcases popular videos from news channels on YouTube like “NOVA: The Secret Life of Scientists: Jean Berko Gleason” from PBS. Google News has always helped users find recent articles from a [...]
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