Google Earth Brings You Fresh News
	Following the recent integration of the New York Times layer into Google Earth, an addition which allows users to read news straight from the mapping application, the Mountain View-based company has made another move to bring even more news to Google Earth fans: a brand new layer providing content powered by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, also known as ABC. The new layer, codenamed ... [read more >>]
	02 June 2008, 14:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google News Stays Longer in Clusters
	When you turn to the standard Google search page, you are faced with the already famous simple format, on top of which you can see several links. Those links are meant to direct the user to a specialized part of the Google search engine. Among them, you can also find "News", which will forward you to a Google page featuring all the latest news from all major categories. If you are looking to find news on a specific s ... [read more >>]
	14 May 2008, 07:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Samsung Phones Will Feature CNN's News Application
	Samsung, the South Korean manufacturer, and CNN International have reached an agreement according to which CNN's new mobile news application will be pre-installed on future released Samsung handsets, starting June 2008. For a period of six months, Samsung wil ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Read News in Google Earth
	Google Earth has received lots of updates lately and the Mountain View company seems to enjoy this campaign of improvement so, today, it offers us one new thing: the possibility to read news in Google Earth thanks to a partnership with the New York Times. What's interesting is that the two companies aimed to provide geo-coded news, which means you are able to view a certain location in Google Earth, plus the news available f ... [read more >>]
	08 April 2008, 03:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

News Comments Update from Google
	The Comments feature that Google added to its News service was launched a couple of months back, and allows people mentioned in a particular story to comment on the respective articles. That’s basically giving a voice to anybody worth hearing and making every version of the story very easily accessible. There’s no better way to make the various perspectives available to Google News readers. There’s been an update for the Comments featur ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 09:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Kicks Tibet News off Search
	Compromise is all this life is about for most people. Meeting your better half mid-way in every crisis that might result in tension between you two is the way to resolve everything, and the same goes for any negotiations being held between two companies, when one doesn’t have the upper hand. There’s only one area where compromise should never be an option, and that is the freedom of speech. China has yet to learn that lesson, and ... [read more >>]
	21 March 2008, 04:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

First Sims 3 Details
	You probably know that gaming magazine PC Gamer UK has a huge Sims 3 feature this month and it will soon be available on the market. However, since many people would love to hear these details and they probably have no way to buy the magazine, computerandvideogames.c ... [read more >>]
	12 March 2008, 05:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google News, as Local as Can Be
	The Google News team always hurried with their predictions about features being implemented and mostly they were right. Some minor exceptions don’t count, like the fact that they won’t check for updates if they are included in the same article and will only present the original story, no matter how many additions and reviews have happened. But what’s done is done and there’s no point in complaining about the obvious. Google N ... [read more >>]
	07 February 2008, 16:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

BigNews, New News
	The news service and site from Ask.com has a pretty original approach to the old-time, old-school, traditional maybe, view of news. It has something out of Google News, but it also has a Digg spin, with people being able to vote the stories they like most and propel them higher in the rankings. BigFactor is what the company decided to name its ranking mechanism and it comprises signals like freshness, impact, quantity of multi ... [read more >>]
	07 February 2008, 04:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

PS3 Is to Blame for GTA IV Delay
	Most of you still remember the fact that GTA IV was initially scheduled for an October release but, unlike any other Grand Theft Auto game, it got delayed. Until the 29th of April, as ... [read more >>]
	25 January 2008, 02:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Article Updates not Indexed by Google News
	Around Christmas, Google was all gleaming with pride at their recently (at the time) released algorithm that was supposedly the best ever, analyzing sources and organizing them in order of importance: the closer they were to the place where the actual event that created the news happened, the bigger the chances it had of having something new that would complement the story. Serouroundtable.com’s "rustybrick" noticed ... [read more >>]
	16 January 2008, 10:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google News Going Political
	I’m already tired of all the products coming out on the market in order to get a slice of the election cash pie. I wish that they would just have a meeting and come together one day and decide something like "a week from now, at 12 o’clock, we’ll all release our election gadgets, pages and anything else we’ll possibly think of by then, in close connection to the main event of the political stage in the US for 2008." ... [read more >>]
	27 December 2007, 04:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cricket for One and All from Google
	All right, old chaps! Time to gather round ye old Internet and jot down the scores ye find there, be it that you will not miss one single run. Or, however they might have said it back in the days, I wasn’t there to listen to it, so I’m just guessing. This is a 20 percent project, meaning that it has been worked upon in the one day a week that the Google engineers are allowed to spend working on projects that are not necessari ... [read more >>]
	21 December 2007, 03:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google News: the Advanced Search
	The News from Google are quite interesting to follow. Not because of the information provided, which is top notch and I just had to mention it, but because of the constant updates that are being made by the dev team in order to optimize the algorithm, the search modality, the updating of the sources and so on and so forth. I’m not sure I have ever heard of any news site that works as assiduously in order to go for the gold. T ... [read more >>]
	18 December 2007, 03:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google High-Tech Christmas Cookies
	It’s not been a week since I talked about the all new all improved Google News Algorithm that was supposed to make the reading news experience a lot more closer and intense with the latest updates on all the stories that might have caught your fancy. I’m not sure why a story about "Grasshopper Chocolate Chunk Cookies" might be relevant in the Sci/Tech area lest I see need for it to be updated with the latest data, bu ... [read more >>]
	13 December 2007, 07:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Ships Without Online Support
	There are some news about Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, but the most important would be the one regarding online play: the game will only ship with offline racing! But don't get mad, it's probably just a measure against piracy (because it's hard to find other expla ... [read more >>]
	11 December 2007, 05:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Quantity Is Quality When it Comes to News
	Surprising as it might sound, that’s not true, at least not according to Google News. I might beg to differ, as I have learned that information is never enough to spare, even if it is on little trivial things, like the latest gossip about a TV star dating who he/she shouldn’t. It greatly enhances your image in that particularly interested about it target group’s eyes and by that your social life flourishes. Well, Google News ... [read more >>]
	10 December 2007, 06:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Oh, Lord, Deliver Thy Holy Word Into Our Meek Souls…
	There have been rumors about talks being had by News Corp and LinkedIn, concerning a possible takeover by the first of the latter. Basically, they turned out to be bogus, the only issues brought into conversation being future partnerships. (Yawns) Booooring! That’s too bad, too, because, as Duncan Riley of TechCrunch.com said, "With the Dow Jones (Wall Street Journal) acquisition being finalized a partnership between News Corp and Lin ... [read more >>]
	04 December 2007, 04:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Bot Fooling Captchas Fools Google As Well
	It’s very good to know that some things work exactly as they should and are not corrupted or surpassed by the technological evolution we have going on at the moment. It’s a sight for sore eyes and when a simple Captcha manages to fool the great Google, it sort of fills my heart with joy. Not because I have anything against Google as a whole and I’d like to see its downfall, but every once in a while I like to see something non-Go ... [read more >>]
	27 November 2007, 13:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MySpace: “Facebook, What Is That You Have There? I’ll Have It, Thank You!”
	Why bother coming up with something new and attractive when you could as well take it from your rival? This is what MySpace seems to be hinting at. Facebook’s "news feeds" about those people important to a user are the main issue at hand. Peter Levinsohn, President of News Corporation’s Fox Interactive Media (FIM) told the Reuters Media Summit that "The concept of a news feed is something we are very focused on, ... [read more >>]
	27 November 2007, 09:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google News as Few Have Seen Them
	I don’t pay attention to links on the sides, I don’t really care about anything else except for what truly interests me, the rest might as well not exist. I guess it goes without saying that I’m not much into clicking on ads or choosing fancy skins for winamp. I like it Spartan, no extra words and no extra features than those I need. While visiting a friend I found myself gazing at the page he was currently on when I rang the ... [read more >>]
	26 November 2007, 03:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Another News Edition from Google
	News is very sought after because news mean information and information is ‘gold’ nowadays. Everything might come in useful, if not state affairs you might get ganked over, at the very least the small social gossip you would do well to know in order to understand what your friends/ female colleagues are talking about using cool updated expressions like "Yeah, totally" and "uh-um, girl, you know it!" Could you imagine ... [read more >>]
	23 November 2007, 02:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

And While You’re at It, Do Sign In. It’s Easier
	The Mountain View based company has had it with inexperienced users that don’t know their way around the many and vast opportunities presented to them. It started hinting at creating accounts and signing in and cooing over the many advantages presented to the user. The example presented by Google was that of the Google News homepage, accessible from anywhere in the world via the Internet (obviously, but they wanted to particu ... [read more >>]
	16 November 2007, 03:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Described as a Google Rival, MySpace Bites the Dust
	Launched a few months ago, MySpace News was described as a potential rival for Google News, the service owned by the search company which is currently one of the top players on the news market. Yesterday, the rivalry between MySpace and Google got enhanced by an announcement of the social networking service that plans to introduce an AdSense-like technology but with more evolved functions. Since Google is the main company when it ... [read more >>]
	06 November 2007, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google News On Tabs. How 'Bout That?
	In case you're one of the iGoogle fans out there, I'm sure you strive to set up your Personalized Homepage in order to get more information in no time. That's why I recommend you to install the recently released Google News gadgets which is supposed to bring you the articles you want straight on iGoogle. "The iGoogle News gadget shows your favorite Google News in a small-screen format, complete with news headl ... [read more >>]
	30 October 2007, 05:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Gets More Social with Facebook Apps
	Following last week's release of Google Maps Profiles, the Mountain View company gets more social by designing Facebook applications which are meant to integrate the giant's technology into users' profiles. Today's utility is intuitively named 'Google News Application for Facebook', allowing Facebook registered members to get their favorite headlines straight into the profile pages. The configuratio ... [read more >>]
	22 October 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google News Down in Most Countries
	Although there is nothing confirmed yet, it seems like Google News was down in several countries. Actually, it doesn't work at all because it shows an empty page to all the visitors of the website. According to Google Blogoscoped, the problems started on Sunday when some users reported difficulties encountered while reading the stories. It seems like Google News Germany, Google News UK and the main page of Google News were u ... [read more >>]
	22 October 2007, 10:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google's Policy to Affect Websites' Traffic
	Peter Bale who is the executive producer of MSN UK and former online editorial director of The Times and the Sunday Times, talked about the recent changes made in the Google policies which are now promoting the original content published by some agencies and avoid driving traffic to websites offering similar articles. In case you haven't heard about it, Google decided to create special Google News pages for Press Association ... [read more >>]
	03 October 2007, 08:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Monitor Your Favorite Google Services Using Email Alerts
	In case you've ever wanted to monitor a certain story, a blog or to find out the latest news concerning your favorite celebrity as it happens, Google Alerts is the perfect solution for you. This new beta service was especially designed for those looking for a simple product which would be able to keep them up to date with the latest changes for certain Google search queries. There are no difficult configuration steps because ... [read more >>]
	26 September 2007, 14:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Private Content on Google
	Google News is one of the largest news services on the web, receiving articles from approximately 4.500 sources from all around the world. Obviously, because Google News is accessible for free, you would expect to see only free material available at one-click distance. But in case you didn't know, Google News also indexes subscription-based articles which require you to register for an account on the author's page befor ... [read more >>]
	21 September 2007, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Simple RSS Tip Copyright by Google
	Google News is one of the best news sources on the Internet but somehow, you need a little bit more than such a service. In order to read the information right when you need it, you have to find a better way to receive the articles published on Google News instead of visiting the official page of the product. Obviously, you can insert the feeds straight into your own RSS reader but if you're one of those Google-addicted Internet users ... [read more >>]
	17 September 2007, 02:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo Buys New Firm, Prepares News Service
	The Sunnyvale company just bought BuzzTracker, a news technology which receives the information from numerous web sources and publishes it on a single page. Although it was not yet confirmed, it seems like Yahoo paid no less than $5 million for the service that could increase the super giant's presence into the news market. All Things Digital reports that Yahoo doesn't want to disclose the price of the deal but it will ... [read more >>]
	14 September 2007, 09:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google: 'That's It! No More Copies! Only YOU're Allowed!'
	The news technology powered by Google receives a new and long-awaited feature that will surely bring more readers: duplicate detection. The new function of Google News is meant to reduce the amount of duplicate articles, giving the possibility to find only the original authors of the stories such as the top Internet news agencies. Obviously this is extremely useful when we think that numerous websites publish exactly the same art ... [read more >>]
	03 September 2007, 04:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Evolves But Remains Buggy
	Well, it happened again and I bet I'm not the only one who saw this error: "Your search - google - did not match any documents. Suggestions: Make sure all words are spelled correctly; Try different keywords; Try more general keywords; Try Google Blog Search; Also, you can browse today's headlines on the Google News homepage." If you still don't get it, I searched Google News for the term "Google" ... [read more >>]
	27 August 2007, 11:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Read/Watch News on Google
	Following the recent improvements bundled into Google News, the Mountain View company tries another one and implements videos, allowing the users to watch the news instead of reading them. What's more interesting is that the search giant already has agreements with numerous news providers such as BBC, which created special news YouTube channels. This way, Google can insert news videos into the articles in a matter of seconds ... [read more >>]
	22 August 2007, 03:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Here's Your Own Google!
	Google News is a very attractive service from the point of view of a user hungry for information, because the search giant's technology gathers news from approximately 4.500 sources and publishes them on a single page. Because of that, Google News was often criticized by the Internet companies, many of them considering the Mountain View company receives money and praises for the content offered by other publishers. However, ... [read more >>]
	20 August 2007, 02:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sshht! Google Test in Progress...
	Sometimes, it's very important to find out what other people are saying about a certain website to decide if it's worth it before you visit it. Google has the same opinion and decided to introduce comments for Google News, its famous solution that displays thousands of headlines on a single page. However, this new technology is somehow different from the one you know because Google News currently allows only the ones in ... [read more >>]
	09 August 2007, 02:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google: We Simply Love You! Come Join Us!
	Every once in a while, the Mountain View company encourages users to check the Google Groups discussions in order to find answers for many of their questions instead of contacting Google. The recently released Google News Discussion Group is just an example of how a forum can help the consumers because it stores almost any type of information concerning the news solution provided by Google starting with personalization options an ... [read more >>]
	27 July 2007, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google News Gets Bush's B*tt Probed
	Google News, the news service provided by the Mountain View company recently showed some weird headlines that made us think it's not the product that deserves to be so popular. The folks from numerous publications on the Internet, including TechCrunch, reported that the main page of Google News showed a headline published by a website called "AXcess News" reading "Bush b*tt probed, Cheney in charge." And ... [read more >>]
	23 July 2007, 05:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Tries to Become More User Friendly
	Google News is an interesting service powered by the Mountain View company that receives headlines from approximately 4500 sources and publishes them on a single webpage. As usual, the search giant Google considers the users of its services to be very important, but the other side that brings information to the products, is also extremely valuable for both the Mountain View company and for the consumers. That's why Googl ... [read more >>]
	19 July 2007, 03:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google News: Anywhere, Anytime!
	The news service powered by the Mountain View company received some new goodies that surely make the product more attractive for the people from all around the world. For example, Google debuted a few weeks ago two new versions of Google News, allowing the users to view only a text flavor of the product or another edition based only on images. Today, Google releases News in Hindi in addition to the Greek version that was recently ... [read more >>]
	09 July 2007, 02:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Doesn't Like the Judge, Wants More Talks
	Of course, it doesn't like the judge, you'll say, who does it? But even if the company wants to avoid going to the court, it was forced to do so because the Mountain View giant was sued by numerous firms for all sorts of reasons. Some time ago, it was sued by Copiepresse, one of the largest Belgian publishers, for uploading headlines and information on Google News without their authorization. In February, the judge orde ... [read more >>]
	03 July 2007, 08:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Image Version of Google News Rolled Out
	A new version of the well-known news service Google News is now available to some of the users but there is no official announcement yet. The new version is entirely based on images and shows a thumbnail of a headline while an introductory text is displayed in the right part of the screen. Once you move your mouse cursor over a picture, you'll be able to see a small part of the article along with related images for the subje ... [read more >>]
	26 June 2007, 08:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Slowly But Surely, Google Steps in Our Lives
	Google likes to stay in touch with its customers and this is explained especially by the impressive amount of blogs that are meant to communicate with the fans of the company. This week was quite a busy one because the search giant rolled out several new blogs for the solutions that didn't have one. It all started with Google Maps and Google Earth, the two mapping tools that received their own blog for talking with fans. Fo ... [read more >>]
	22 June 2007, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google's Plans Revealed: All the Countries to Join the Googleplex!
	The long-awaited Firefox 3.0 might include the Google security tools to discover dangerous websites just after the user enters its URL. Basically, this can be done with ease because the Mountain View company has an agreement with StopBadware that allows the search engine to flag the malicious pages and display two notifications to inform the users about dangerous content included on the website. "Similar to how Firefox 2 ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Live: The Latest News on YouTube
	The latest news is now available on YouTube through the videos provided by BBC World, a recent partner of the online video sharing service. According to Broadband TV News, BBC uploads approximately 30 clips per day, but the YouTube channel is not available to UK residents. The partnership was signed some time ago when the two companies announced that the deal will create three new channels on YouTube, two of them for entertainmen ... [read more >>]
	30 May 2007, 15:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google: Video News Coming Soon!
	Nathan Stoll, a Google product manager working for Google News gave an interview for Computerworld, offering some hot information about the company’s plans concerning the news service. Among a lot of innovative features, it seems that the Mountain View firm intends to insert video content into the headlines, offering a more detailed article. Basically, it can be done with ease because Google is also the owner of YouTube, the onl ... [read more >>]
	25 May 2007, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google News Smashed by Its Own Weapons
	Google News might be defeated by other services using its own weapons, as it seems that the search giant prepares several deals with the publications indexed on the service. This means that the Mountain View company might be forced to pay for the content published on the page although it managed to bring a lot of traffic for the registered pages. However, it seems that Google tried to keep these agreements private because the company is af ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2007, 08:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia