Using Google News search facility
Google News search facility is a computer generate news site and is about finding the news you want quickly and efficiently. What the facility does is crawl news sites and organises them into ranked clusters. Google News offers:
Google News:
- Presents information selected 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 at the top.
Entering a search term in the search box and selecting News from the left hand side will group all related news together:
- Google News indicates how fresh the story is by listing how long ago the story was posted. 1 hour ago for the top story in the screenshot above.
- Underneath the first article you will see ‘all 1336 news articles’.
- By clicking this link, a page will be displayed listing all articles related to the same topic
By default, results are shown by relevance to your search terms but you can change this to show results ordered chronologically by clicking on ‘Sorted by date’ in the left pane. - By clicking on the ‘Advanced News Search’ you are able to search by news source, location, date range as well as other search criteria. Google News is not just in the UK but also available in other countries including France, Germany, Australia and India.
Check our blog next week for Lesson 5 – Google Shopping.
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