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Google News Goes Global

Google News is going global. Expanding on the success of its computerized news site, Google has launched five new international news portals.

The new sites are focused on Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom:

Like the primary, more U.S.-oriented site, News.Google.com, each of the new sites searches current news headlines from more than 4,500 international news sources and ranks them using computer algorithms -- no humans.

Each one keeps a global perspective, but puts an extra emphasis on stories about and sources from that country.

And each site also has a special page, linked from the left column navigation, focused entirely on stories about that country. You can access each of these new international news portals from links at the very bottom of the main News.Google.com page.

Google's got more good stuff in the works, so stay tuned. Among the projects the company is working on is a search engine for Weblogs.

SUBMIT YOUR TIPS FOR PUBLICATION: What websites do you find most useful in your reporting? Send a brief note with your name, affiliation, and a description of a favorite site to tips@cyberjournalist.net and I may publish them in future columns.

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Posted by Jonathan Dube at 4:53 PM on May 15, 2003
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