Gogle

Google News is an automated news aggregator provided by Google Inc. The initial idea, StoryRank related to Google's PageRank formula was developed in 2001,by Google. No human is involved in the altering of the front page or story promotion, beyond tweaking the aggregation algorithm.

Google News has built a strong reputation on its ability to quickly find, sort and deliver news information and sources. It takes information from news websites like CNN and Reuters, newspapers like The New York Times, and news blogs like Mashable(). This provides you with a broad overview of the news.

Google News automatically groups news tories with similar content and places them based on algorithmic results into clusters. In Newsmap, the size of each cell is determined by the amount of related articles that exist inside each news cluster that the Google News Aggregator presents. In that way users can quickly identify which news stories have been given the most coverage, viewing the map by region, topic or time. Through that process it still accentuates the importance of a given article.

Google News USA is rolling out an experimental feature that lets people or organizations who are part of a news story add a comment to the news. Our long-term vision is that any participant will be able to send in their comments, and we’ll show them next to the articles about the story.

Google aggregates news from over 4500 news sources, updated continously. The results can be retrieved as a number of RSS feeds, where you can create your own specific feed by specifying one of more than 40 regions/languages, and an optional topic ranging from Domestic to Most Popular to Entertainment. Currently there are nine topics, including, of course, All.