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More Powerful +1s on Google News
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Posted by Erich Schmidt, Software Engineer Over the past few months, myriad sites across the web (including Google News) have adopted the
+1 button
to help start conversations. But there hasn’t been an easy way for signed-in users to see what news articles your friends are enjoying -- until now. Starting today, the Spotlight section will sometimes include articles that your Gmail contacts and people in your Google+ circles have publicly +1’d. You can see their profile pictures and click through to their Google+ profiles, just like on
Social Search
. And of course you can +1 the stories too, expressing your opinion and optionally sharing with your circles. Here’s what Spotlight looks like with social annotations:
We hope this change helps you find more great articles to enjoy, and gives more power to your +1s.
Highlighting journalists on Google News
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Posted by Eric Weigle, Software Engineer Great journalism takes more than facts and figures -- it takes skilled reporters to knit together compelling stories. Knowing who wrote an article can help readers understand the article's context and quality, see more articles by that person, and even interact directly with them. Whole communities can form around prominent contributors, which is why we started showing
information about content creators
next to their material in Google Search. Accordingly, Google News is rolling out more information about journalists over the next several weeks, starting with English-language editions. When reporters link their Google profile with their articles, Google News now shows the writer’s name and how many Google+ users have that person in their circles. For the lead article for each story, Google News also shows that reporter’s profile picture and enables readers to add them to their Google+ circles right from the Google News homepage.
If you are a journalist and would like to participate, please follow the instructions in our
Help Center
. If you are a reader, we hope you enjoy learning more about the faces behind the news.
More points of view on Google News
Friday, October 28, 2011
By Jayakumar Hoskere, Software Engineer
When a big story breaks, there are often over a thousand articles written about the news event. At Google News, we work hard to surface the most relevant and interesting content to you -- so you can spend less time sorting through thousands of articles, and more time consuming news from a range of diverse perspectives. For instance, since introducing
expandable stories
, we have added additional labels to call out special types of articles in many editions. These labels are designed to highlight different content types on Google News, and show you stories that complement and expand upon standard news reporting. The four labels we recently launched include:
Live Updating
: A live-updating article, such as a liveblog.
Featured
: An article a publisher has told us is
standout
.
Fact-check
:
An article providing fact-check content about the story.
Your Preferred source
: An article from a source that you
preferred
.
Evaluating a story from different angles often provides a sharper perspective. That is why we also now highlight special types of articles in many Google News search results. Your search results will not only show recent articles, but also those from diverse perspectives that relate to a given query.
We also
recently added
the Translate button to non-English international stories in expandable story boxes in the U.S edition, giving you the ability to read pieces from all over the world -- even if you don’t speak the language.
We hope you find these changes useful as we continue to develop opportunities for you to find more interesting and valuable content.
News joins Google Dashboard
Friday, October 28, 2011
Posted by Panchapagesan Krishnamurthy, Software Engineer
Halloween is almost here and we're celebrating early. No trick -- just a treat. As of now, you can access Google News in the
Google Dashboard
. This gives you the ability to see basic information about your Google News personalizations, check out our privacy policy and click through to edit your preferences.
We're excited to bring you this additional level of control and encourage you to give it a whirl.
Bringing relevant news to you, regardless of language
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Posted by Yaroslav Kurovtsev, Software Engineer, Google Translate
To help bridge language barriers between you and the news of interest to you from around the world -- and to bring you more diverse perspectives on foreign events -- we’ve added a new “translate” button to the expandable story boxes in the U.S. English edition of
Google News
. Clicking the translate button reveals the English translation of the original headline using
Google Translate
. Clicking on the headline takes you to the publisher’s website where you can choose to use Google Translate to see an English version of the entire article. Headlines are labeled with their country of origin. To do this, we look for foreign articles from local sources on a relevant news topic.
For example, in the case of the flood in Thailand, in addition to surfacing English articles from international press like New York Times, we might show a related article from a local source like อ
าร์วายที9.
At the same time, we hope readers will benefit from finding relevant news in other languages and being able to read it without knowing the language.
Google News launches redesign in UK and India
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Posted by Scott Zuccarino, Product Manager
Starting today, we’ll be rolling out changes to some international versions of Google News in an effort to unify the News experience across editions. As in the U.S. version, these changes offer richer visual navigation, help you find trending and popular news more easily, give you the option to further customize your news experience, and allow you to share pieces you care about in a simpler way.
We’ve also been working to give you a
closer relationship
with the publishers you love, who can now highlight some of their most compelling content right on your Google News homepage.
In order to bring you the best Google News experience possible, we’ll be periodically refreshing select editions, starting with the U.K. and India. We hope you enjoy these enhancements. As always, please feel free to submit your
feedback
or visit our
Help Center
if you have more questions.
Recognizing publishers’ standout content in Google News
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Posted by David Smydra, Product Specialist and Justin Kosslyn, Product Manager
Every day, news organizations and journalists around the world dedicate significant time and resources toward some of the most critical types of coverage: exceptional original reporting, deep investigative work, scoops and exclusives, and various special projects that quite clearly stand out. Today, during a Google News workshop at the
Online News Association conference
in Boston, we introduced a new content tag for the US edition that will help us better feature this “standout” content and give even more credit where credit is due.
If you put the tag in the HTML header of one of your articles, Google News may show the article with a ‘Featured’ label on the Google News homepage and News Search results. The syntax for this new tag is as follows:
<link rel="standout" href=“http://www.example.com/scoop_article_2.html” />
You can use the tag to point to your own content or to point to other sources with standout stories. Because the Standout tag belongs in the HTML header of your articles, it will only be seen by automated systems like Google News, not by direct readers of your articles themselves.
Standout Content tags work best when news publishers recognize not just their own quality content, but also the original journalistic contributions of others when your stories draw from the standout efforts of other publications. Linking out to other sites is well recognized as a best practice on the web, and we believe that citing others’ standout content is important for earning trust as you also promote your own standout work.
At this point, we ask news organizations to use the Standout tag to cite their own content at most seven times in each calendar week. If a site exceeds that limit, it may find that its tags are less recognized, or ignored altogether. A news organization may cite standout stories from other news sources any number of times each week.
To be clear, Standout tags are just one signal among the many signals that algorithmically determine prominence on Google News. We recognize the importance of giving credit where credit is due, and believe this tag can be a step in the right direction -- but it will only succeed if the publisher community helps it succeed. We have experimented in the past with
other metatags
, and have applied feedback from those efforts to this initiative. As we monitor how the Standout tag is applied, we'll look forward to sharing further observations or updates.
To learn more about how the Standout tag works and how you can implement it on your site, visit our
Help Center article
.
Google News now crawling with Googlebot
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Posted by David Smydra, Google News Product Specialist
(Cross-posted on the
Webmaster Central Blog
)
Google News recently updated our infrastructure to crawl with Google’s primary user-agent,
Googlebot
. What does this mean? Very little to most publishers. Any news organizations that wish to opt out of Google News can continue to do so: Google News will still respect the robots.txt entry for
Googlebot-News
, our former user-agent, if it is more restrictive than the robots.txt entry for Googlebot.
Our Help Center provides detailed
guidance
on using the robots exclusion protocol for Google News, and publishers can contact the Google News Support Team if they have any questions, but we wanted to first clarify the following:
Although you’ll now only see the Googlebot user-agent in your site’s logs, no need to worry: the appearance of Googlebot instead of Googlebot-News is independent of our inclusion policies. (You can always check whether your site is included in Google News by searching with the “site:” operator. For instance, enter “site:yournewssite.com” in the search field for Google News, and if you see results then we are currently indexing your news site.)
Your analytics tool will still be able to differentiate user traffic coming to your website from Google Search and traffic coming from Google News, so you should see no changes there. The main difference is that you will no longer see occasional automated visits to your site from the Googlebot-news crawler.
If you’re currently respecting
webmaster guidelines for Googlebot
, you will not need to make any code changes to your site. Sites that have implemented subscriptions using a metered model or who have implemented First Click Free will not experience any changes. For sites which require registration, payment or login prior to reading any full article, Google News will only be able to crawl and index the title and snippet that you show all users who visit your page. Our Webmaster Guidelines provide additional information about “
cloaking
” (i.e., showing a bot a different version than what users experience). Learn more about Google News and subscription publishers in this
Help Center article
.
Rest assured, your Sitemap will still be crawled. This change does not affect how we crawl News Sitemaps. If you are a News publisher who hasn’t yet set up a News Sitemap and are interested in getting started, please follow
this link
.
For any publishers that wish to opt out of Google News and stay in Google Search, you can simply disallow Googlebot-news and allow Googlebot. For more information on how to do this, consult our
Help Center
.
As with any website, from time to time we need to make updates to our infrastructure. At the same time, we want to continue to provide as much control as possible to news web sites. We hope we have answered any questions you might have about this update. If you have additional questions, please check out our
Help Center
.
Enhancements to Google News for Android tablets and iPads
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Posted by Arun Prasath, Tech Lead, Mobile Google News
Alongside working on improving the Google News
design for smartphones
, we have also been looking into enhancing our offering for tablet devices. Today, we are launching a few minor enhancements to Google News for Android tablets and iPads.
We have optimized columns in the home page and section pages so that they can be more easily viewed in portrait and landscape orientations. Some of the other updates include: a conveniently placed menu on the top for navigating across sections, support of finger swiping through the multimedia strip in expanded story boxes and a more friendly edition picker.
These improvements are now available in the U.S. edition. To view these changes, just type
news.google.com
on the browser of your favorite tablet.
Google News highlights unique content with Editors’ Picks
Thursday, August 4, 2011
(Cross-posted on the
Official Google Blog
)
News organizations tell stories online in ways that bring together the best of traditional and digital journalism, whether that involves long-form investigative features, compelling photo slideshows or interactive maps and charts that add new levels of engagement to the day's news. To help connect you to the best works of news publishers, Google News is introducing a new section in the right-hand column of the U.S. edition. The section is called "Editors' Picks,” and it displays original content that publishers have selected as highlights from their publications. This is the latest addition to
recent improvements
we’ve made to the variety and presence of stories and multimedia on Google News.
An array of news organizations, including local, national and niche publishers, are now using Editors’ Picks to display their best, most engaging content. Because Google News relies on algorithms, Editors' Picks will always be just that—picks provided by publishers themselves, and not by Google. You can browse a set of publisher feeds that span national, specific and local interests—like The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, ProPublica, the Guardian and The Root, among many others—via the side-to-side arrows next to each publisher's logo. The feeds you see are chosen based on a variety of factors, including your
news preferences
. If you’re interested in using source preferences on Google News, Editors' Picks helps you do that with the slider that appears just below the articles.
You may have first noticed Editors’ Picks
as an experiment last year
. Based on the data from that experiment, we have been working with nearly two dozen publishers in recent months and have seen a positive response from readers and publishers alike: readers get the news they're interested in from the sources they trust, and publishers receive higher traffic to their websites. We encourage any news organizations that are interested to visit our
Help Center
to get started.
Posted by Yogita Mehta, Software Engineer, Google News Team
A Few Google News Design Changes
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Posted by Jasson Schrock, User Experience Designer
Beginning today in the U.S. English edition of News, you may notice a few changes in the look and feel. This is part of a
Google-wide initiative
to improve your experience, and today we’re happy to extend this to Google News.
For starters, we’ve cleaned up the Google News homepage a bit. With fewer visual distractions and less clutter on the page, it should be faster to find the news important to you. The editions menu and “Personalize” button at the top should be easier to see. The “Personalize” button links to your
recently consolidated personalization settings
including your preferences for topics and favorite sources. Throughout the site, all the features and functionality are still there, but this updated design is aligned with the new consistent look across other recently updated Google sites like
Gmail
,
Maps
and
Search
.
Before
After
In the coming months, you’ll continue to see more improvements to the layout and design of the site, and we’ll also expand internationally.
Shareable Google News badges for your favorite topics
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Posted by Natasha Mohanty, Engineer, Google News
(Cross-posted on the
Official Google Blog
)
On Google News, the average reader of political news has read 20 articles about politics in the last six months. Where do you stand?
Starting today, in the U.S. edition of
Google News
, you can see how voracious a news reader you are by earning Google News badges as you read articles about your favorite topics. The more you read, the higher level badge you’ll receive, starting with Bronze, then moving up the ladder to Silver, Gold, Platinum and finally, Ultimate.
We have more than 500 badges available, so no matter what kind of news you’re into, there’s a badge out there for you. Here’s a taste:
Your badges are private by default, but if you want, you can share your badges with your friends. Tell them about your news interests, display your expertise, start a conversation or just plain brag about how well-read you are. You can also add custom sections by hovering on a badge and clicking “add section” to read more about your favorite topics. To get started with badges, visit Google News from a signed-in account with
web history
enabled and then visit this page on our
Help Center
for instructions.
This is just the first step—the bronze release, if you will—of Google News badges. Once we see how badges are used and shared, we look forward to taking this feature to the next level.
In the spirit of continually trying to improve Google News, we have heard loud and clear from the many of you who asked us to separate our Sci/Tech section into two distinct sections. We are happy to report that we have now done this for all English editions, with more languages coming soon. We also combined some personalization settings from the “News for you” and News Settings menu into one handy sidebar at the top right corner of the home page, so you can easily tell us what you want to read on your Google News.
We hope you’ll badge up on Google News to keep track of what you’re reading, read more of what you love and share your passions with your friends.
Applauding the 2011 Knight News Challenge winners
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
(Cross-posted on the
Official Google Blog
and the
Google Public Policy Blog
)
Over the past few months,
we’ve announced
$5 million in grants to be distributed by the
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
and the
International Press Institute
—two non-profit organizations developing new approaches to journalism in the digital age—and we’re pleased to congratulate the first initiatives that have been selected as part of that funding.
Today at
M.I.T.
, the Knight Foundation showcased 16 projects selected as the winners of the 2011
Knight News Challenge
. Now in its fifth year, this media-innovation contest included $1 million in support from Google. As you’ll see in
the full list of winners
, these initiatives come from organizations large and small and are reminders that entrepreneurship can be sparked anywhere. Here are just a few examples of the creative ways the journalism community around the world is merging traditional skills with an online landscape:
At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
OpenBlock Rural
will use its seed money to work with local governments and community newspapers across the state to collect, aggregate and publish data.
In Virginia, the Miller Center Foundation’s
State Decoded
will serve as a platform to display state codes, court decisions and information from legislative tracking services to make government more understandable to the average citizen.
The
Chicago Tribune
will collaborate with the
Investigative Editors & Reporters
organization and
The Spokesman-Review
on a set of open-source, web-based tools that make it easier for journalists to use and analyze data.
Liverpool, U.K.-based
ScraperWiki
will bring its experiences with public data to journalism camps in 12 U.S. states.
Chile’s
El Mostrador
will develop an editorial and crowdsourced database to bring greater transparency to potential conflicts of interest.
Ushahidi
will build off its
past crisis efforts
to improve information-verification across email, Twitter, web feeds and text messages.
Other winning proposals
tell rich multimedia stories, bridge the gap between traditional and citizen media and further improve the utility of data to journalists. Our sister program
in partnership with the International Press Institute
is also well underway. The entries in that competition are now in and the winners will be announced later this summer. We look forward to seeing the impacts these initiatives have on digital journalism and hope they encourage continued experimentation and innovation at the grassroots level.
Posted by Jim Gerber, Director, Strategic Partnerships, News
Rededicating the Newseum’s Journalists Memorial
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Posted by Sean Carlson, Global Communications & Public Affairs
Outside
555 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.
, the front pages of newspapers from all 50 U.S. states mark the entrance to
the Newseum
. Inside the lobby, a gallery of
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs
confronts visitors with moments of triumph and tragedy captured on camera. The museum’s corridors display exhibit after exhibit highlighting the role of journalism and journalists throughout history.
One of the Newseum’s most moving tributes is its
Journalists Memorial
, a wall of glass paneling imprinted with the names of more than 2,000 people around the world who have died while reporting the news. Nearby kiosks narrate their stories, an
online database
enables anybody with Internet access to learn more, and our
new YouTube channel
further remembers these fallen journalists through video.
Earlier this week, Krishna Bharat, founder and head of Google News, spoke at the memorial’s annual rededication ceremony. As you can watch in the video below, he began by reflecting on what motivated those being honored “to walk a path that was not paved with gold, but with danger.”
Over the course of his address, Krishna discussed the importance of a free press to society and of high-quality content to the web, observed the rising number of online journalists and bloggers coming under attack, and recounted incidents reported by the
Committee to Protect Journalists
. On a personal level, he also shared his memories as a boy in India and the influence of his grandfather in inspiring his appreciation for news.
“The journalists we remember and honor today chose lives that were full of meaning and purpose,” he concluded. “Let their stories not be forgotten. Let us repeat them. Let us
re-tweet
them. And let us print them on our pages so the world knows that silencing a journalist simply does not pay.”
To their families, friends, and colleagues, we extend our sympathy and respect.
Expanding Google News for more variety and multimedia
Monday, May 16, 2011
Posted by Chase Hensel, Associate Product Manager, Google News
Every day,
Google News
crawls through thousands of news articles to present you with the most relevant and recent stories. For a long time, we’ve realized that bringing relevant news to the surface is only part of the puzzle—it should also be easy to scan for stories of interest and dig deeper when you find them.
The newly expandable stories on Google News in the U.S., released today, give you greater story diversity with less clutter.
Now you can easily see more content, see less of what you don’t use and have a more streamlined experience:
Click-to-expand:
Each story cluster is collapsed down to one headline with the exception of the top story. When something grabs you, click nearby anywhere but the title to expand the story box.
Labeled diversity:
For stories you’ve expanded, you’ll see genre labels for some of the additional articles that explain why they were chosen and how they add value. For example, you might see something labeled as an “Opinion” piece or an indication that an article is “In Depth.”
Multimedia and more:
Within each expanded story box, you’ll find a sliding bar of videos and photos, links to related sections and easier-to-use sharing options, so you can quickly digest the sights and sounds of a news story, dig into different types of publications and share what you find interesting with one click.
Personalized top stories:
The Top Stories section is expanded to six or more stories from three to give you more topic diversity. The first three stories remain unpersonalized and the same as before. The rest may be personalized based on your interests. To personalize your Google News experience you can click on “Edit” under “News for you.” You can choose the “Standard Edition” if you don’t want personalization.
Less is more:
The default view is now the popular “One Column” (formerly “Section”) view. We merged List View into Top Stories, as described above. You can still switch to “Two Column” view, which resembles classic Google News.
We hope you like these changes—please share your
feedback
and visit our
Help Center
to learn more.
Introducing “News near you” on Google News for mobile
Friday, May 13, 2011
Posted by Navneet Singh, Product Manager - Google News
Google News for mobile lets you keep up with the latest news, wherever you are. Today we’re excited to announce a new feature in the U.S. English edition called “News near you” that surfaces news relevant to the city you’re in and surrounding areas.
Location-based news first became available in Google News
in 2008
, and today there’s a local section for just about any city, state or country in the world with coverage from thousands of sources. We do local news a bit differently, analyzing every word in every story to understand what location the news is about and where the source is located.
Now you can find local news on your smartphone. Here’s an example of a “News near you” mobile section automatically created for someone in Topeka, Kansas:
To use this feature, visit
Google News
from the browser of your Android smartphone or iPhone. If this is the first time you are visiting Google News on your phone since this feature became available, a pop-up will ask you if you want to share your location. If you say yes, news relevant to your location will appear in a new section called “News near you” which will be added at the bottom of the homepage. You can reorganize the sections later via the personalization page.
You can turn off the feature at any time either by hiding the section in your personalization settings or by adjusting your mobile browser settings. Please visit the
Help Center
for further details.
So, go to
news.google.com
from your smartphone and get the latest news from wherever you are.
Google News and the Coverage of Bin Laden
Friday, May 6, 2011
Posted by Krishna Bharat, Founder and Head - Google News
Google News
was born in the aftermath of the tragic events of September 11, 2001. An unprecedented act of terrorism on U.S. soil, by a foreign militant group led by Osama Bin Laden, changed the course of history. People around the world were trying to comprehend what had just happened, and its implications to public safety, foreign policy, financial markets, and their own lives. Much of that exploration happened online.
At Google we realized that our ability to display links to the freshest and most relevant news was limited by a fundamental problem: fresh news lacked hyperlinks. Google’s ranking depended on links from other authors on the web. Fresh news, by definition, was too fresh to accumulate such links. A new importance signal was needed.
I realized that if Google could compute how many news sources were covering the underlying story at a given point in time, we could then estimate how important the story was. Thus, “Storyrank” was invented. This insight led to a ranking that combined the editorial wisdom of many editors on the web in real time. In addition to making search better it led to Google News - a display of stories in the news ranked automatically by an algorithm. This also allowed us to group news articles by story, thus providing visual structure and giving users access to diverse perspectives from around the world in one place.
After 10 years Mr. Bin Laden is in the news again. The story of the killing of Bin Laden has taken the online world by storm. This time, relevant coverage from around the world is just a click away, in an automatically compiled Google News cluster with more than 80,000 sources.
We have certainly come a long way in the last decade. Indeed, Google News now has over 70 editions in over 30 languages, and sends over 1 billion clicks a month to news publishers worldwide. Additionally, 1 out of 6 web searches on Google includes a set of news results, which are computed with the help of Storyrank. This helps bring coverage of the most important news story matching the query to the top of the ranking.
In the last 10 years there has been a lot of learning, iteration, and innovation in our team. And most importantly, we have acquired a loyal audience of news enthusiasts, who appreciate diversity and the ability to access multiple points of view on a story. To our users we would like to say “Thank You!”
We wanted to share with you some of the news coverage of the death of Bin Laden. Here is a sample of 100 links to news articles from representative sources worldwide:
ABC News
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Abril
-
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia
-
ANSA.it
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Associated Press
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
-
Baltimore Sun
-
BBC News
-
Billboard
-
Bloomberg
-
Boston Globe
-
Boston Herald
-
BusinessWeek
-
CBC.ca
-
CBS News
-
CBSSports
-
Chicago Sun-Times
-
Chicago Tribune
-
Christian Science Monitor
-
CNET
-
CNN
-
Computerworld
-
Corriere della Sera
-
Dallas Morning News
-
derStandard.at
-
Detroit Free Press
-
E! Online
-
El Pais (Colombia)
-
El País (España)
-
El Universal (Venezuela)
-
ESPN
-
Forbes
-
Fox News
-
Globe and Mail
-
Ha'aretz
-
Hindustan Times
-
Huffington Post
-
InformationWeek
-
Jerusalem Post
-
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
-
Kansas City Star
-
La Repubblica
-
La Stampa
-
Le Point
-
Los Angeles Times
-
MarketWatch
-
MLB.com
-
MSNBC
-
MTV
-
National Geographic
-
National Post
-
NDTV
-
New York Daily News
-
New York Times
-
New Yorker
-
Newsday
-
Newsweek
-
NFL News
-
NPR
-
NZZ Online
-
O Globo
-
PC Magazine
-
PCWorld
-
People Magazine
-
Philadelphia Inquirer
-
Politico
-
Reuters
-
RollingStone
-
Salt Lake Tribune
-
San Francisco Chronicle
-
San Jose Mercury News
-
Seattle Post Intelligencer
-
SI.com
-
Slate Magazine
-
Spiegel Online
-
Sydney Morning Herald
-
Telegraph.co.uk
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The Atlantic
-
The Economist
-
The Guardian
-
The Hindu
-
TIME
-
Times of India
-
Toronto Sun
-
U.S. News & World Report
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Us Magazine
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USA Today
-
Vancouver Sun
-
Vanity Fair
-
Voice of America
-
Wall Street Journal
-
Washington Post
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WELT ONLINE
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Wired News
-
Yahoo! Sports
-
ZDNet
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العربية ن
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الجزيرة
-
朝日新聞
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読売新聞
For those you who enjoy digging into data, here is a
much larger list of over 150,000 links
to news articles mentioning Osama Bin Laden over the last 5 days (May 1-5, 2011).
One of the many lessons I learned from 9/11 is that the world is highly connected. We live in a global society crisscrossed by virtual and physical dependencies, where knowledge is power and ignorance has consequences. This is a world where knowing what is happening to people in other parts of world, and understanding their circumstances and beliefs, matters more than ever -- because their actions will ultimately affect our lives. Tools such as Google News, which bring order to information and make search smarter can help us cope with the complexity of news and understand the big picture.
Further, as the wave of revolutions in North Africa demonstrates, online information does not merely reflect world events -- it can even cause them. These are indeed exciting times for those of us who work in the news space and get to witness the impact of journalism on society first hand!
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