Google News:

• Presents information culled from thousands of news sources worldwide.
• Updates entries continuously throughout the day.
• Groups together related headlines and photos.
• By default, automatically displays the latest headlines.

Click on the News link above Google's search box or visit news.google.com.

Google news indicates how fresh a story is by listing how long ago it was posted, e.g. 15 minutes ago for the top story on the left in the screen shot above. Click on the title to display the article. Notice the "and 1007 related" link at the bottom of the entry of the story on the left of the above screen shot. If you click an entry's "and XXX related" link, you'll see a page listing all articles related to the same topic.

Search news by entering your query and clicking on the "Google Search" button.

Example: [ Google ]      

By default, results are sorted by relevance to your search terms. When you wish to see articles ordered chronologically, click on the "Sort by date" link, located in the upper right corner of the results window.

Advanced News Search, accessible from the Advanced Search link on the News page, enables you to search by news source, location, date range, and other criteria. It's also available at news.google.com/advanced_news_search.

International versions of Google News are available for countries including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, and the U.K.

Google News Alerts - www.google.com/newsalerts

Set up Google News Alerts to get email when news articles on topics of interest to you appear on the web.

After you've set up a News Alert, Google finds and delivers links to news articles as they appear online or once a day.

Consider using Google News Alerts to:

• monitor a developing news story
• keep current on a competitor or industry
• get the latest on a celebrity or event
• keep tabs on your favorite sports teams
• learn where you are or your company is cited or quoted

For more information on Google News visit news.google.com/help/about_news_search.html.

Exercises

These problems give you practice with using Google News. For hints and answers to selected problems, see the Solutions page in the Appendix.

1. Find today's current top stories listed on Google News.

2. Find the latest news about Google.

3. Set up a Google News Alert to automatically email you news about Google features and services or some other topic of interest to you.