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More points of view on Google News
Friday, October 28, 2011
By Jayakumar Hoskere, Software Engineer
When a big story breaks, there are often over a thousand articles written about the news event. At Google News, we work hard to surface the most relevant and interesting content to you -- so you can spend less time sorting through thousands of articles, and more time consuming news from a range of diverse perspectives. For instance, since introducing
expandable stories
, we have added additional labels to call out special types of articles in many editions. These labels are designed to highlight different content types on Google News, and show you stories that complement and expand upon standard news reporting. The four labels we recently launched include:
Live Updating
: A live-updating article, such as a liveblog.
Featured
: An article a publisher has told us is
standout
.
Fact-check
:
An article providing fact-check content about the story.
Your Preferred source
: An article from a source that you
preferred
.
Evaluating a story from different angles often provides a sharper perspective. That is why we also now highlight special types of articles in many Google News search results. Your search results will not only show recent articles, but also those from diverse perspectives that relate to a given query.
We also
recently added
the Translate button to non-English international stories in expandable story boxes in the U.S edition, giving you the ability to read pieces from all over the world -- even if you don’t speak the language.
We hope you find these changes useful as we continue to develop opportunities for you to find more interesting and valuable content.
News joins Google Dashboard
Friday, October 28, 2011
Posted by Panchapagesan Krishnamurthy, Software Engineer
Halloween is almost here and we're celebrating early. No trick -- just a treat. As of now, you can access Google News in the
Google Dashboard
. This gives you the ability to see basic information about your Google News personalizations, check out our privacy policy and click through to edit your preferences.
We're excited to bring you this additional level of control and encourage you to give it a whirl.
Bringing relevant news to you, regardless of language
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Posted by Yaroslav Kurovtsev, Software Engineer, Google Translate
To help bridge language barriers between you and the news of interest to you from around the world -- and to bring you more diverse perspectives on foreign events -- we’ve added a new “translate” button to the expandable story boxes in the U.S. English edition of
Google News
. Clicking the translate button reveals the English translation of the original headline using
Google Translate
. Clicking on the headline takes you to the publisher’s website where you can choose to use Google Translate to see an English version of the entire article. Headlines are labeled with their country of origin. To do this, we look for foreign articles from local sources on a relevant news topic.
For example, in the case of the flood in Thailand, in addition to surfacing English articles from international press like New York Times, we might show a related article from a local source like อ
าร์วายที9.
At the same time, we hope readers will benefit from finding relevant news in other languages and being able to read it without knowing the language.
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