Tag: GOOGLENEWS

Google News got a major overhaul last night, and, as you'd expect, the site's major changes revolve around user autonomy. The news aggregation site now lets you choose to view stories in headline or section view, and, with the help of a drop-down menu, more easily shares stories on Facebook, Twitter, Buzz or Reader. The revamped version of Google News will also provide more local news and events, ...

Simplicity and navigability reign supreme on Google, but the site has recently introduced a new format to select users. Google is now incrementally implementing those changes to its search results page, and the New York Times grabbed some screen shots of the updated system. While the new scheme may initially appear needlessly confusing and busy, the upgrades definitely include a few awesome, ...

You may have missed it, but if you were one of the unlucky people caught in the Google outage yesterday, it may have seemed like the world was ending. At about 7:48 a.m. Pacific time yesterday morning, a glitch of an unspecified nature caused some traffic for Google services (including search, Gmail, and News) to be needlessly rerouted through Asia. The mistake caused slow downs and service ...

Google Labs is Google's experimental playground for new programs, and, thanks to the company's fabled '20-percent time' (employees are encouraged to spend 20-percent of their time creating new projects and brainstorming new ideas), there is always plenty of innovation to be found. Some of our favorite Google products -- Google Maps, GOOG-411, Docs and Spreadsheets, Google Video and iGoogle -- had ...

Google is continuing its march towards becoming the source for all the world's information.The search giant is expanding a program it launched in 2006 with the cooperation of The New York Times and The Washington Post to share those newspaper's archives. Now, Google is indexing and digitizing papers from around the country, including smaller local papers, which often don't have digital archives ...

One of the most frustrating things a news hound encounters online is the Wall Street Journal. The preeminent financial paper in the country has still yet to join the rest of the online news world and offer its world class reporting for free. But fear not, faithful devourers of information, there is way around the Wall Street Journal's $79 a year subscription fee. And it's completely legal! When ...