Google News
From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia, by MultiMedia
Google News is an automated news compilation service provided by
Google Inc. The Google News website was introduced as a beta release in
April 2002. There are different versions of the aggregator for more than 20
languages, with more added all the time.
To quell any charges of reporting bias, the service is fully automated with
no human editors. However, the sources included are determined by human
review, and their selection has come up for criticism. In March 2005
attention was called to Google's inclusion of the white supremacist National
Vanguard magazine, and the resulting controversy forced Google to remove
that site from the service. In another case, Google was criticized for not
including sources which are censored in China. In the official Google Blog
on 9/27/2004, the Google Team wrote: "For users inside the People's Republic
of China, we have chosen not to include sources that are inaccessible from
within that country."
The service covers the news articles that appeared within the past 30 days
on news websites in the language concerned, from various countries; for the
English language it covers about 4,500 sites, for other languages less. It
provides around the first 200 characters and links to the full article. Some
of these websites require a subscription; in that case this is noted in the
Google News summary of their articles.
In March 2005, Agence France Presse (AFP) sued Google for $17.5 million,
alleging that Google News infringed on its copyright because "Google
includes AFP’s photos, stories and news headlines on Google News without
permission from Agence France Presse." It was also alleged that
Google ignored a cease and desist order, though Google counters that it has
opt-out procedures which AFP could have followed but did not. Google has
since ceased aggregating AFP's stories.
Features and customization
Google News provides searching, and the choice of sorting the results by
date and time of publishing (not to be confused with date and time of the
news' happening) or grouping them (and also grouping without searching). In
the English versions, there are options to tailor the grouping to a selected
national audience.
Users can request e-mail "alerts" on various keyword topics by subscribing
to Google News Alerts. E-mails are sent to subscribers whenever news
articles matching their requests come online. Alerts are also available via
RSS and Atom feeds.
Users can customize the displayed sections, their location on the page, and
how many stories are visible with a JavaScript-based drag and drop
interface. Stories from different editions of Google News can be combined to
form one personalized page, with the options stored in a cookie. The service
is integrated with Google Search History since November 2005.
See also
External links
Google Guide made by MultiMedia | Free content and software
This guide is licensed under the GNU
Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia.
|
Our Services
Members
Site News
Tools
Manual's
And our Forums with