Chapter 14. Staying Current with Google News
Find your way through the news
Read the news in your own language
Search through Google News
Personalize the Google News page
Set up a Google News Feed
Stay up to date with Google Alerts
Manage Google Alerts
Google is a news service of a different sort. Technically, Google is a news aggregator. Rather than having its own reporters and gathering its own news, Google searches through the news of 4,500 other news sources and presents the best of the news to you in a form that feels like other news pages.
Explore Google News
Point your Web browser to http://news.google.com to begin viewing Google News. You can also navigate to the news page by clicking the News link on the Google search page. As mentioned earlier, Google News is an aggregator of news. This means that Google gathers news articles from different news sources and redisplays it. Not all the articles from all 4,500 news sources are displayed. When you first launch the Google News Web site you are shown the Standard News version. This version displays the top news stories from around the world. This page is automatically generated on a regular basis. You can even see how long it has been since the page was auto-generated by looking in the top-right corner of the News page, where the length of time since the last page was generated appears.
Navigating through the news
A short abstract of each news story appears with its title as a clickable ...
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