News like you’ve never seen before… Alan Vien Bui, Fall 2009 Google News News like you’ve never seen before… Alan Vien Bui, Fall 2009

What is Google News? Google News is an automated news collector supported by Google Inc. Google’s main news search covers about 4,500 English language sources. Items are stored in Google’s news database for 30 days; discarded items can be retrieved through Google’s news archive. Google organizes its database into several categories.

What makes Google News stick out from the rest? Google fast flip offers a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles. Google also offers a news search for not just the U.S., but about 70 other countries. With this feature, Google News spreads their database all throughout the world.

Google Alert “Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.” “Some handy uses of Google Alerts include: monitoring a developing news story keeping current on a competitor or industry getting the latest on a celebrity or event keeping tabs on your favorite sports teams”

Why you should use Google News! All in all, Google News does exactly (and excels in) what it was created to do: Provides a large database covering a wide range of topics. Promotes easy navigation with its organized site layout. Enlarges its user base by creating many country specific versions of the main site. Offers many useful features and functions that further add to your experience in news-searching.

Sources The Extreme Searcher’s Internet Handbook by Randolph Hock http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com http://www.google.com/alerts