WHAT IS GOOGLE NEWS?
If knowledge is power -- and information feeds knowledge --
then, yet another free service-product offering from Google
is HIGHLY empowering, indeed.
Purpose of this Bulletin
This bulletin exists to insure that you are aware that you can easily and freely create a personal, powerful, unique "information space," in effect, a "personal daily newspaper" -- fed by as many or few publications as you wish -- and tailored to your exact needs and desires.
Here is the Link to the Google News Service
Here is the Link to the Google News Service
1. What Wikipedia Says
Excerpted from Wikipedia Article (click here to see the entire article)
Google News is a free news aggregator provided and operated by Google Inc, selecting most up-to-date information from thousands of publications by an automatic aggregation algorithm...
1.2 FUNCTION
Visiting many separate websites frequently to find out if content on the site has been updated can take a long time.
- Aggregation technology helps to consolidate many websites into one page that can show the new or updated information from many sites.
- Aggregators reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites for updates, creating a unique information space or personal newspaper.
- Once subscribed to a feed, an aggregator is able to check for new content at user-determined intervals and retrieve the update.
- The content is sometimes described as being pulled to the subscriber, as opposed to pushed with email or IM.
- Unlike recipients of some pushed information, the aggregator user can easily unsubscribe from a feed...
2. What Google Says
Excerpted from Google News "About" Page (click here to see the entire page)
Google News is a computer-generated news site that:
- aggregates headlines from news sources worldwide,
- groups similar stories together and
- displays them according to each reader's personalized interests.
Traditionally, news readers first pick a publication and then look for headlines that interest them. We do things a little differently, with the goal of offering our readers:
- more personalized options and
- a wider variety of perspectives from which to choose.
On Google News we offer links to several articles on every story, so you can:
- first decide what subject interests you and
- then select which publishers’ accounts of each story you’d like to read.
- Click on the headline that interests you and you'll go directly to the site which published that story.
Our articles are:
- selected and ranked by computers that evaluate, among other things, how often and on what sites a story appears online.
- We also rank based on certain characteristics of news content such as freshness, location, relevance and diversity.
- As a result, stories are sorted without regard to political viewpoint or ideology and you can choose from a wide variety of perspectives on any given story.
We'll continue to improve Google News by:
- adding sources,
- fine-tuning our technology, and
- providing Google News to readers in even more regions.
FEATURES OF THE SERVICE
2.5 Personalized news:
No one can read all the news that’s published every day, so why not set up your page to show you the stories that best represent your interests? Learn more.
2.6 Alerts:
You can sign up to receive weekly, daily or as-it-happens email alerts on any topic that interests you. Learn more.
2.7 News for your mobile phone:
If you have a mobile data plan, you can access a special version of Google News right from your mobile phone.
2.8 Feeds:
You can receive updates of various sections of Google News or Google News search results by subscribing to RSS or Atom feeds in your favorite feed reader. Learn more.
2.9 News archive search:
Search and explore information from historical archives dating back over 200 years. Learn more.
2.10 More Information:
- Look for more information, find answers to your questions, and send us suggestions in our Help Center pages.
- If you're a news publisher, look for answers to your questions and useful tools in our section Help for Publishers.
David Nelson
All Original Content © 2014, The MENTOR Enterprises / ELMS, All Rights Reserved. BUT, I hereby waive those rights, to this extent: You may freely copy and pass this along -- and are urged to do so -- as long as it's all done free of charge, unchanged, you include this statement, AND you inform me as to how it is being used -- at YOUR convenience but, hopefully soonest.
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