Lupe Cuevas

Created in 2002 Automated news aggregator Gathers news from more than 25,000

publishers Available in more than 40 regions and 19

languages News stories are stored for 30 days Search results done using algorithm Human intervention when choosing the

news sources

Top stories down the center (ranked based on originality, freshness, quality, and expertise of source amongst other factors)

Different categories on the left (World, Sports, Health, Business, etc.)

Recent Elections Greater Los Angeles Spotlight Most popular Includes YouTube videos

Can choose which type of news you want to read more about

Can edit “Greater Los Angeles” area to a specific location

Google News sends you email updates on the topics you are interested in.

News, blogs, updates, video, discussions or everything

Can get alerts weekly, daily, or as-it-happens

Historical archives dating back 200 years Creates timelines, can select certain time

periods Hold digitized issues of The Montreal

Gazette, The Sydney Morning Herald, St. Petersburg Times, and Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Google has been sued for copyright infringement by Agence France Presse and Belgian news publishers. They claimed Google used their stories, pictures, and news headlines on Google News without their permission. They ended up signing an agreement.

Google said the news sources did not follow the opt out procedure.

To opt out a website needs to fill out a simple form. They will be removed within a couple of days, the content that was already there will take 30 days to leave database.

A website can also block all or certain content from appearing on Google News by creating a robot.txt file or using a META tag.

January 2006 Google.cn is set up in China, censored search results

After saying it was considering withdrawing from China, due to a cyber attack, Google finally announces it will redirect users from China to their Hong Kong site.

This violates Google and China censorship agreement

U.S. print area lost more than 24,500 jobs between 2008 and 2009

Since 2008 there are 166 U.S. newspapers that no longer put out print editions

Online news jobs are growing

http://news.google.com/intl/en/about_google_news.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-approach-to-china-

update.html http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?

hl=en&answer=94003 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2356556,00.asp http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8581393.stm http://www.catholic.org/business/story.php?id=37304