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What's on your personalized News page?
Friday, August 17, 2007
Posted by Gina Bonzani, News Support Team
I "grew up" in Google supporting News and communicating directly with publishers and readers. One thought I’ve seen over and over is that people want to be able to see the news that interests them the most. And a great way to do that is to personalize your Google News homepage.
One of the easiest ways to personalize the News homepage is to move the sections that you most like to read to the top of your page and remove the sections you don’t. For me, that means no Sports section. Or, if you’re interested in a particular topic, you can use personalized News to create a custom section using a keyword. Many Google News readers use this feature to track their favorite sport or team. Others use custom sections to track politics, specific politicians or their own hot button issues. You can even get custom sections with articles from certain publishers (check out the search for
site:nola.com
), or articles written by sources from a certain state or country (like
location:CA
, for California). News publishers can even use custom sections to track which articles we’re crawling from their site.
I myself will be using a custom section to help me plan for my Jamaican vacation later this summer. It looks like it’s shaping up to be a wild season for hurricanes, so I’ve set up a custom section using the keywords [atlantic hurricane]. This section will help me stay up to date to see whether the season turns out as badly as predicted. (Even if I have to brave gale-force winds and rain for a couple of days, I’ll still have fun!)
Finally, if you use a feed reader (such as
Google Reader
) to read your news, you can get an RSS or Atom feed from your custom News section. Just click into your custom section and click on either the RSS or Atom link on the lefthand side of the page. For more info about feeds, check out our
online help content
.
We’d like to hear about how you're using personalized News to get the news that interests you. Visit the
Google News group
to tell everyone about your most creative or interesting personalized News section.
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