Google Hacks 2Nd Edition [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

4.2. Google News

At
the time of this writing, Google News (http://news.google.com) culls around 4,500
news sourcesfrom The Scotsman to
The China Daily , The New York
Times to The Minneapolis Star
Tribune .

The front page, shown in Figure 4-1, is updated
algorithmically without any involvement by puny humansaside,
of course, from those writing the news in the first
placeseveral times a day. The "most relevant
news" rises to the top.

Stories are organized into clusters, drawing together coverage and
photographs from various news sources around the Web. Click the
"all n
related" link for a list of all stories falling
within that cluster. Click "sort by
date" to see how the story unfolded across sources
over time.

All of this doesn't apply just to the front page,
but to all of the newspaper-like sections within: World, U.S.,
Business, Sci/Tech, Sports, Entertainment, and Health.

For a text-only and PDA/smartphone-friendlier version of Google News, click the Text Version link in the left column or point your browser at http://news.google.com/news?ned=tus. You may notice that it takes a little longer to load; this is because it combines all sections, from Top Stories to Health, into one text-only page.