Posts Tagged ‘Google News’

Just to be clear, Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert is not running for president of the United States of America. Still, the news of his campaign topped the list of trends in Google News today, probably because actual Republican front-runner Mitt Romney, in the sixth biggest news story of the day, has been accused of speaking French.

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Google News implemented a few tweaks to become more tablet-friendly for owners of iPads and Android devices.

Web surfers can earn badges for checking in at various locations, as well as for their entertainment selections. Add reading the news to that list, thanks to Google News.

The study says on the average 40% of news traffic comes to top news sites from outside referrals. The omnipresent search engine was the lead referring site for 17 major news sites reported in the study and ranked second referring site for the other four.

The 2011 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship is set to tip off Tuesday night, and while Google Earth may not be able to bring users 3D images from inside the arenas — CBS and its cable partners might be slightly miffed — the outside of the 14 tournament arenas is available via the virtual tour below.

Google also created a special tournament page enabling users to track the schedule, explore campuses via Street View, watch the actual games via NCAA March Madness on Demand, create brackets, read Google News coverage, and download apps from the Chrome Web Store.

Google launched a convenient portal to their site two days ago for accessing centralized updates and news about their new products. It is aptly named Google New. Keeping up with all the latest developments at Google is not an easy undertaking, with company acquisitions being at an all time high this year and with constant [...]

Did you ever imagine that the US and England are among the main countries that attempt to block content from the public on Google? Countries like China, North Korea and Iran are the most notorious for imposing massive censorship on their population and Google has even taken measures to deny services in those regions. Now [...]

Google has been working to make it easier to get video news content indexed in Google News. As part of this effort, they posted a few tips on their blog yesterday, to help publishers make their YouTube news clips more discoverable. While the post is focused on publishers who are uploading news content, Google’s tips [...]