Google News used to be a search engine but since last year, they started hosting stories from news agencies like the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse as these services, unlike Reuters, don’t have dedicated websites to publish their own content.This is probably a very successful experiment because according to bloglines, more than a million blog posts have cited Associated Press stories
Amazing incident occurred on the U.S. stock market last week. In the financial newsletter Bloomberg got news that the airline United Airlines has applied for bankruptcy. Bear market responded predictably, and stocks immediately fell down. Within a few minutes, the total capitalization of the company fell by about $ 1 billion only after five to ten minutes, people figure out what's wrong: to trader
Last week there was a bit of a brouhaha over Google news incorrectly giving the wrong date for a news story. In that particular incident Google news picked up a 6 year old story about United Airlines filing bankruptcy which upset the stock market for that particular stock. I’ve seen things like that happen before [...]
I was reading some online news site and came across this travel article about how a mix-up in Google News on September 8 caused United Airlines stock price to plunge from $12 to $3 per share, resulting in a loss of about $1 billion on the total stock’s value.
According to the news reports, a newspaper’s [...]
Today, we will able to read old newspapers from Google News. This is officially announced at Google blog today (Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time). The service allows you explore millions of news archive. Besides that, visitor will able to browse through the newspaper precisely as they were published.
Are you one of those who fear that you will start forgetting Tamil script sooner or later?Are you one of those who want a one-stop website to know everything happening in the Tamil World?Are you one of those who love Tamil?Then Google has come up with a great gift for you.. Yeah.. Google News is now available in Tamil... I still find Google News in English to be the only place where you get to kno
Surveys designed to detect the number of people identifying themselves as atheists can be useful. However, there are metrics which may be as important. A recent post by 40 Year Old Atheist deals with the attention atheism is receiving in the media and presents some thought-provoking data collected via Google News.Among the key findings:There was a 75% increase in the number of news articles contai
Google has finally added the one of the most widely spoken language in India & Shri Lanka - Tamil, Google news in Tamil has been released on 6th August and will index news and stories from number of Tamil news sources and will present in different sections.
Google News Blog apparently feels that including Tamil in [...]
Google News India has a separate section for people who speak, read and understand Tamil.
The Tamil version of Google news will not just make it easier for Indians, to read and understand, but also to citizens of Singapore, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Mauritius, Vietnam, and Reunion. These are countries where you will find Tamil Population [...]
Find Quotations in Google News I like how Google put it in a review of Google News: Words Matter. As part of Google's mission to organize the world's information, Google provides quotations in news articles easy to search and browse in the Google News. It is now very easy for you to keep track of what your favorite politician, actor or sports star is saying.This is a video to kick start. This
Viewing the page using a mirror makes it somewhat easier to read, and would allow someone to find a website. Web site "mirroring" normally involves copying the contents of a site and hosting on a different server. This can be useful if one server is particularly busy. With the new approach, Google reasons readers won't have to pore through search results listing the same story posted on different
Google News, or Lack Thereof Google chief executive Eric Schmidt made a quick stop downtown today to speak at a luncheon held by the Economic Club of Washington. I was there with about a dozen other reporters, hoping he’d talk about the company’s spectrum policy or drop a few juicy tidbits about its Android operating… [...]
A few minutes ago I went to Google News and was slapped on the face with this: Does Obama Really Not Mind High Gas Prices (As Observed by GOP)? Ouch. The link was on Fox's Embed Producers blog, which is written by nine bad motherfuckers.
Here are the last five headlines:
GOP sees blood in the water on Obama vetter
Johnson Steps Down as Obama VP Vetter
McCain shows no ‘love’ for Obama in Ph
When this blog was about 6 months old, I considered turning it into an industry news blog or even setting up another one that only covered the latest information. Thankfully, I didn’t really get around to that which is good as it’s not something I was passionate about and probably would have stopped doing after [...]
When this blog was about 6 months old, I considered turning it into an industry news blog or even setting up another one that only covered the latest information. Thankfully, I didn’t really get around to that which is good as it’s not something I was passionate about and probably would have stopped doing after [...]
About a month ago, Google added items from the New York Times to Google Earth. Now they’ve taken it a step further by adding Google News entries as well. This is pretty cool.
The New York Times addition was cute, but didn’t add much. There simply aren’t enough stories to make it especially useful. However, Google [...]
If you use the standard Google search page, you are already familiar with the simple, which you can see multiple links. These links are there to help users to a specialized part of the search engine Google. Among them, you can also find news that you send a page from Google with the latest news from all major categories.If you are looking to find information about a particular topic, you can do th
Google has added a new feature “related searches” into the Google News at the bottom of search results. As is normal for Google News, there are no human editors involved in selecting related searches; these suggestions are automatically generated based on an algorithm to determine terms related to your search.
Now, when you do a search [...]
Google News has a tiny update; now, for each search you will get related search items at the bottom of the search results page. Folks at Google think this feature could be used not only for refining your search, but as a new way to browse news; however, if they really wanted that, they would have put the feature on top of the page. I doubt anyone would want to scroll all the way down for each new search item. That said, we’ve put the algorithim to the test and it worked fine. You can see related searches for “Yahoo” below. I’d say this is exactly right. In fact, it tells us a little story. First, Yahoo had “online advertising,” then that didn’t work that well; so “Microsoft” wanted to buy them. They sided with “Google,R
Finally, Google News is now available for iPod Touch, for users in over 30 countries.
Google News for the iPod is here, and it looks really nice, as you can see in the image below. To reach it from...
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Si hay un servicio web de Noticias que uso casi a diario y me gusta mucho es NewZingo. La verdad es que parece un servicio web simplemente de noticias, pero llega un poco más allá, su funcionamiento es bastante más complejo de lo que parece.
NewZingo registra todos las Updates de Google News, sacando de ellas [...]
Google News famosissimo news aggregator di casa Google ha aggiunto alle sue funzioni di ricerca un novità davvero molto interessante, e che potrà ritornare particolarmente utile nel caso si stiano effettuando ricerche su un determinato personaggio.
Infatti da oggi è possibile trovare su Google News le citazioni o dichiarazioni, dall’inglese quotes, se cercheremo dei personaggi come [...]
Live Search News es la nueva propuesta de Microsoft para competir con Google News el sitio de Noticias de Google y a sido lanzado esta semana en los Estados Unidos, generando excelentes comentarios de parte de CNET ya que cuentan que esta bastante bien lograda y muy parecida a el servicio de noticias de Google.
Live Search News cuenta con la característica de la reproducción de vídeos noticiosos que se activan cada vez que el cursor se posa encima de ellos, lamentablemente en Chile no podemos disfrutar de el nuevo servicio de noticias de Microsoft, pero proximamente estará disponible en todo el mundo.
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Google News has been the subject of much speculation over the past months so company software engineer Andy Golding decided to clear the air on the official Google News Blog.
In a nutshell, some of the Google News myths include:
Having a photo in your article helps with the rankings
Sitemaps help rankings
Timing of publication is important
Adsense will [...]
Google has responded to frequent speculation by news authors about how the service ranks news items for importance, and how timing, and the use of images affects the chances of being featured.
This unusually open response from the search giant differs from their one-size-fits-all response of “It’s all in the algorithm” they tend to dish-out to [...]
On Saturday 16th March 2008, the government of China blocked access to YouTube in order to prevent videos of the unrest in Tibet from being viewed by Internet users in mainland China. YouTube showed several clippings of the pro-Tibetan-sovereignty protests, taking place in Lhasa.
Protests erupted in Lhasa the capital of Tibet, against the Chinese government. [...]
There have been several articles the last couple of days relating to Google, so I thought I’d make one post to sum up these news reports. First up, rumors are floating rampantly on the web that Google will indeed launch their G-drive which will be an online storage system for your documents, files, photos, and more. See Cybernetnews on Google G-Drive and the
Wall Street Journal article on G-Drive.
Secondly, Google is adding terrain maps to their Google Maps program and has updated the collaboration features. It allows you to get a detailed view of geographical features both natural and human-built such as landmarks and buildings. See Webware on their article relating to terrain maps.
Thirdly, Google Maps for Mobile adds a “my location” feature that sets your location even in phones that don’t have GPS systems. However, since you have to download a program, it won’t work on iPhones. See the Google press release on Googl
Android™ will deliver a complete set of software for mobile devices: an operating system, middleware and key mobile applications. On November 12, we will release an early look at the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) to allow developers to build rich mobile applications.
Open
Android was built from the ground-up to enable developers to create compelling mobile applications that take full advantage of all a handset has to offer. It is built to be truly open. For example, an application could call upon any of the phone’s core functionality such as making calls, sending text messages, or using the camera, allowing developers to create richer and more cohesive experiences for users. Android is built on the open Linux Kernel. Furthermore, it utilizes a custom virtual machine that has been designed to optimize memory and hardware resources in a mobile environment. Android will be open source; it can be liberally extended to incorporate new cutting edge technologies
Google News: 4 agencias de noticias en un nuevo portal dedicado a la información. El buscador publicará notas y fotos originales de cuatro agencias internacionales y evitará duplicar los artículos que reproducen esos mismos teletipos.El servicio de noticias de Google ha firmado un acuerdo con cuatro agencias internacionales para publicar directamente su información sin pasar por las webs de los periódicos. El acuerdo se ha firmado con Associated Press, Agence France Presse, UK Press Asscociation y Canadian Press quienes van a ofrecer acceso completo a todos sus artículos y fotografías.Estas agencias no tienen una web propia dirigida al gran público, así que han optado por utilizar el servicio de Google.Google no ha querido desvelar los detalles económicos del trato alcanzado con estas cuatro agencias de noticias, pero por el momento, en sus páginas no se incluye ningún tipo de publicidad.Queda claro que las agencias han comprendido el potencial que supone su presencia en
Google negocia acuerdos para albergar informaciones de cuatro agencias de noticias que incluyen a Associated Press (AP), preparando el camino para obtener beneficios publicitarios de Google News, según informó la compañía.Actualmente, sus socios - la británica Press Association, Canadian Press, France Press y Associated Press - presentan sus noticias bajo sus propias marcas en las páginas a las que vincula Google News.Las compañías han acordado nutrir de informaciones con licencia a la propia Google.Anteriormente, el servicio de Google News, de cinco años de edad, revolucionó la red al ofrecer vínculos a las noticias de miles de temas, y al agrupar y relacionar las noticias que tenían temática similar, sin albergar los artículos en su servidor.Josh Cohen, director de producto de mercado de Google News, avanzó que su compañía consideraría en el futuro mostrar publicidad junto a las noticias que recibiese de las agencias."Creo que es justo decir que siempre buscamos for
I have been reading lately about the addition of comments on Google News. News so often presents only one side of the story, and despite the fact that it should by nature be unbiased, we all know this is rarely the case.The addition of comments to Google News has started an interesting discussion that I wanted to continue here.
First off, it should be clear, not everyone can comment on Google News items - they must be “part of the news” being reported. To comment, they must email Google with their comment and verification that they are who they say they are. What is Google’s mission?
… we’re hoping that by adding this feature, we can help enhance the news experience for readers, testing the hypothesis that — whether they’re penguin researchers or presidential candidates– a personal view can sometimes add a whole new dimension to the story.
There however is some concern about Google News getting comments because of the usual suspects: Goo
Como tiene su derecho a réplica, Google también ha implementado ese concepto en su portal de noticias Google News solo en su versión estado-unidensa. De esta manera, cualquier ciudadano, artista, político o experto citado en alguna noticia recogida en una de las 4.500 fuentes que maneja Google News a diario puede explayarse y dar su punto de vista respecto a lo escrito por un periodista.Google News es un portal que reúne noticias publicadas en medios de todo el mundo. La compañía, que en el pasado ha recibido varias demandas por utilizar informaciones y contenidos elaborados por otras empresas, asegura que no pretende entrar en el negocio de la elaboración de contenidos. "Sólo pretendemos crear nuevas oportunidades para continuar un diálogo al margen de las noticias", explica por teléfono Jessica Powell, portavoz de Google News.Los comentarios a las noticias sólo podrán realizarse por ahora en aquellas que aparezcan en la edición estadounidense de Google News. "La idea su
Imagine…You’re the subject of a news article that winds up on Google News. When you go to read said article, you find you’ve been misquoted. Or, perhaps, they left out some major facet that changes the entire dimension of the article. A new feature being developed by Google is aiming to allow users to fix these [...]
The blogosphere is on fire over Google News Walling Off Content from other websites using aggregators to crawl their news. Of course Google has been doing this for years while hosting other’s news. However, I saw this as a plus for news sites since showing up in Google is always a plus.
Maybe this is the beginning of the end of aggregation. It is always suggested to write your own content, so maybe bloggers and other sites are now going to have to go back to reading articles and rewriting in their own words what they wrote.
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En un par de días, el servicio 'Google News' incluirá, junto a las noticias que se muestran en su página de portada (de la versión de EEUU), comentarios de los usuarios.Estos comentarios no serán editados por el equipo de Google, pero sí se distinguirán claramente como "opiniones" para diferenciarlos de la noticia proporcionada por el periodista. Como 'Google News' nunca reproduce por completo la información proporcionada por el medio de comunicación, suponemos que estas aportaciones de los usuarios estarán junto a los extractos de estas noticias.Con la llegada de estos contenidos 'propios' para 'Google News' en forma de opiniones de usuarios, quizá veamos como este servicio comienza a incorporar publicidad, una opción que los responsables de Google nunca se han atrevido hasta la fecha a introducir por temor a las posibles denuncias de medios de comunicación, que suelen acusarle de apropiarse indebidamente de sus contenidos.La valoración de importancia de las noti
Don't you hate it when you want to watch the latest movie trailer or watch the latest stupid comment by Bush that you heard about from a friend and you have to wade through CNN's web site to find the video only to find out it's "premium" content and you can't view it!!! Well that has certianely been my problem and I just found a web site called Blinx (that has apparently been around for a while, I'm out of it!) that has not only the largest collection of videos indexed with over 7 million hours of footage, but also gives you the most accurate and USEFUL videos related to your search. The videos are indexed from just about any site you can think of: Fox News, CNN, Reuters, BBC News, MSNBC, Forbes, BusinessWeek, New York Times, etc. This is great because if you search for something on YouTube, you're only going to get videos mostly created by users or only short clips from a few sites, but with this site you actually find videos from major news organizations, large Television and c
MySpace is going into the news business with a service that will scour the internet for news stories and let users vote on which ones receive the most exposure.Via Times Online.Tags: myspace, digg, google
Errors happen when you’re in a rush. But even Drudge report, which gets storys out seconds after they happen rarely if ever has such glaring spelling error. This isn’t a single occurence. It happens repeatedly. I’d expect such spelling errors from a low rate personal blog, (like this one), but not from one of the top news consolidation sites, which thousands have their home page set to.
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Millions of Hindi speakers across India and the rest of the world have a reason to cheer: Google News is now available in Hindi.
Google News gathers news stories from the various Hindi news sources on the web and presents a ranked one-page summary with all the links to your favourite news sources in the various [...]
Search engine optimization writer Beverly Aarons (www.beverlyaarons.com) secured the #1 Google News spot for Text2Store Mobile Corporation www.text2store.com using an SEO (search engine optimization) press release designed to attract both businesses and individuals to this mobile coupon company. "Search engine optimization doesn't mean articles and press releases that are mechanical and boring," says Aarons, an award-winning writer. "Search engine optimized articles and press releases should provide useful information to the reader, accomplish client goals, while simultaneously helping search engines locate the content. That's something I kept in mind when creating Text2Store's press release," she added.When writing Text2Store's press release, Aarons recognized the competitive nature of the online coupon business and determined search engine optimization to be the best choice for Text2Store's content. "We needed to beat the competitors to the punch," said Aarons. "After doing rese
Google Blog 검색을 사용하면 제일 마음에 드는 기능이 바로 시간별로 검색을 찾아주는 것이다. 예를 들면 최근 한시간내에 올라온 글을 검색해라고 하면 바로 검색해주는데 이렇게 되면 케케묵은 블로그 글들을 읽지 않고 항상 따끈따끈한 글들을 읽을 수 있다. 이것은 정말로 좋은 기능이라고 생각한다.이런 기능이 사람들로부터 호평을 받았는지 Google은 시간으로 필터링하는 기술을 Google News에 적용시켜서 새로운 뉴스 검색을 만들었는데 얼핏보기에 블로그 검색과 너무나 비슷하다. 사실 작년 10월에 Google은 이미 블로그 검색을 Google Finance 및 Google News에 통합시켜서 이 두개 서비스의 사용성의 제고를 가져왔었다. 이번에 새로운 변화를 통해서 더 많은 사람들이 즐겨 사용할 것같다.위 그림을 보면 검색을 한번 한다음 결과리스트 왼쪽에 블로그 검색과
"Google News" provides a well organized and a customizable view for NEWS. You can customize the viewed news by providing key words. And also the news can be prioritize according to your requirements. So news searching and organizing is done by Google, we just have to watch it.http://news.google.com/I have created a customized News View for me. You can check my configurations and even you can use that as your customized view. My Customized News View
From today, British mobile phone users will be able to access Google's news and email services using their handsets and personalise their own mobile version of the search engine's homepage, as the American company pushes ever further into the mobile internet.Google has become increasingly excited about the internet on mobile phones as it sees growth in mobile handset sales far outstripping the growth in sales of computers. Deep Nishar, Google's head of mobile products, said: "There are roughly twice the number of mobile devices in the world as there are PCs and the number of mobile devices is growing faster than PCs. In many emerging markets the only way that people are able to access the world's information is through mobile phones."Until recently the mobile phone companies tried to steer users towards specific mobile web sites, trying to earn extra revenues from downloadable content such as music and ringtones. But a lack of consumer take-up has forced them to reassess their role
