Google News comes out of beta and goes gold

User Comments: 10

1. January 24, 2006 10:52 AM
   PUTALE said:
   google really is working on becoming the leader in the web contents.
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2. January 24, 2006 12:00 PM
   MonkeyMan said:
   Great job for Google. Keep up the good work.
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3. January 24, 2006 12:46 PM
   asphix said:
   This has the potential to be pretty sucessful. There are a lot of news sites all over the web, and it has been becoming increasingly difficult to differenciate from the masses. What I believe people will want in the future is a customizable experience with advanced, functional features.The ability to incorporate RSS feeds into the news site which you log into for personalization purposes. The ability to specify what type of news you're most interested in, so that news is displayed on the top of the stack. No more news corporations choosing the headliner.. YOU choose your headliner.Integration into googles current services give them an edge above and beyond all other news services provided today. The ability to read an article, then at the end click a link that will do a quick search through googles search engine for related articles from various other publications. It gives you access to cross referencing at your fingertips instead of having to execute it manually.There is a lot of potential.. and I'm sure google will do a great job with this. Cant wait to give it a trial run.
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4. January 24, 2006 1:18 PM
   sngx1275 said:
   I guess if you aren't signing in with your google account there is no difference. When it was first avaiable I had customized news, but it seemed to drop my cookie occationally so I got tired of it and didn't keep signing in. Since that time I've noticed none of these "maturations" they speak of. It looks identical to me now as it did many months ago.
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5. January 24, 2006 2:03 PM
   mentaljedi said:
   Google is expanding and i think the US will be really annoyed because the US government won't have control over what's said as they can't bully Google and so we'll get the TRUTH not some propergander made by Bush!
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6. January 24, 2006 2:46 PM
   DragonMaster said:
   Now I'm just waiting for gmail to "graduate". (Have an accout, but would like to see the final version soon)
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7. January 24, 2006 3:01 PM
   sjps220 said:
   I still use google news but I had the same experience as sngx1275 where I would customize it but the cookie wouldn't hang around so I always had to sign in. And DragonMaster, I feel the same way.
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8. January 24, 2006 5:03 PM
   nathanskywalker said:
   [quote]We're taking Google News out of beta! When we launched the English-language edition in September 2002, we entered untested waters with a grand experiment in news browsing - using computers to organize the world's news in real time and providing a bird's eye view of what's being reported on virtually any topic. By presenting news "clusters" (related articles in a group), we thought it would encourage readers to get a broader perspective by digging deeper into the news -- reading ten articles instead of one, perhaps -- and then gain a better understanding of the issues, which could ultimately benefit society. A bit more than three years later, we offer 22 regional editions in 10 languages, and have a better sense of how people use Google News.[/quote]Now that is a good way to get the whole picture, good going google. I haven't used google news much, going to have to try that out. But that is a very good way to do thingss "10 articles instead of one", definently, get differrent perspectives.[quote] I still use google news but I had the same experience as sngx1275 where I would customize it but the cookie wouldn't hang around so I always had to sign in. [/quote]yeah that does tend to be a problem, though that should be fixable, i think with firefox there is a way to choose to keep certain cookies, not certain as to how well that works though.
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9. January 24, 2006 5:23 PM
   Kaleid said:
   It's simply amazing how fast google is expanding. I personally welcome our new overlords
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10. January 24, 2006 11:07 PM
    exscind said:
    Google News have always served me well. I get all of my news headlines and resources from Google News, Techspot, and Slashdot. Google News is convenient because they have considerably fewer advertisements than any other major news sites that I have encountered before. Some sites will even only show news that is aligned with their political perspective (ie., conservatives/liberals), which is not how I want my information take-in to be. Google doesn't write their own (that I know of anyway) so their displayed articles are more neutral in my opinion. I also like how they present a certain topic and then gives you the option to read that same topic from 100+ other websites so the overall information will be less biased and more balanced. Overall, Google News is a great extension of Google. Good to hear it is over the beta status.
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