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Google News & Weather now on the Play store with a new look
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Posted by Mayuresh Saoji, Product Manager, News & Social Team
UPDATE
: The News & Weather App is now available on iOS
here
.
News happens 24/7. To keep up with a fast-paced news cycle, you need a fast-paced app. That was our objective in updating Google News and Weather. It makes the news easier to browse, simpler to digest, and more easily tailored to the news you care about.
Upgrade to the latest version of the app or download it from Google Play
here
-- including a new tablet version -- for
the best of Google News:
Swipe through categories like Business, Technology and Sports or add your own sections for specific topics or places
Tap into any story for a variety of viewpoints, including in-depth articles, op-eds, and local perspectives
Get comprehensive coverage from over 65,000 publications worldwide, and a choice of more than 60 country-specific editions
Sign in with your Google account to take all your customizations with you when you access Google News from any device—phone, tablet, or desktop
We’re rolling out the app to all compatible Android devices and locations globally over the next few days, so stay tuned. We want as many users as possible to get a high quality Google News experience and look forward to launching on other platforms soon.
Introducing the Google News Publisher Center
Monday, August 4, 2014
Posted by Eric Weigle, Software Engineer
UPDATE:
And even more good news as the Publisher Center is now up and running in all countries where Google News has an edition. (Dec 16 2014)
UPDATE:
The Publisher Center is now available for publishers in France, Italy, Germany and Spain as well as in all 21 countries where a Google News edition is available in English. (October 27 2014)
If you are a news publisher, your website has probably evolved and changed over time. Until now, when you made changes to the structure of your site, we might not have discovered them unless you told us. And that meant they might not have shown up in Google News, which in turn could have resulted in readers not seeing your great content. To prevent this from happening, we are letting you make changes to our record of your news site using the just-launched
Google News Publisher Center.
With the Publisher Center, you can benefit from better discovery and classification of your content and you can directly make the following changes:
Update your news site details
, including changing your site name and labeling your publication with any relevant source labels (e.g., “Blog”, “Satire” or “Opinion”)
Update your section URLs
when you change your site structure (e.g., when you add a new section such as http://example.com/2014commonwealthgames or http://example.com/elections2014)
Label your sections
with a specific topic (e.g., “Technology” or “Politics”)
Try it out
, or learn more about
how to get started.
At the moment the tool is only available to publishers in the U.S. but we plan to introduce it in other countries soon and add more features. In the meantime, we’d love to
hear from you
about what works well and what doesn’t. Ultimately, our goal is to make this a platform where news publishers and Google News can work together to provide readers with the best, most diverse news on the web.
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