Google News (news.google.com) - News & Updates

[Bapun]

Today, we’re sharing some updates that we announced at Global Fact 10, including how Google is expanding tools for academics, fact checkers, journalists and people interested in checking things for themselves.

New features coming to Fact Check Explorer

Google is expanding tools for academics, fact checkers, journalists and people interested in checking things for themselves.

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[Bapun]

Google News is letting users “Try a New York Times News subscription. 4 months, for free” if they sign-up using “Subscribe with Google.”

Google News offering free 4-month New York Times trial

Google News is letting users "Try a New York Times News subscription. 4 months, for free" if they sign-up using "Subscribe with Google."

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[Bapun]

Google fires its director of news ecosystem development.

Google's director of news ecosystem loses job after 13 years of service, plans on returning to India

Google's director of news ecosystem development lost his job after 13 years of service. He said that he is planning to return to India to look after his mom in September.

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[OnlyTech]

In India, Google News is also offered in Bengali, English, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu.

Google News now supports 10 Indian languages, including Gujarati and Punjabi

 

[OnlyTech]

The redesigned following feed features a card view for topics, sources, and locations. Google News version 5.86 for Android includes the redesigned Following feature. It will expand to iOS users later this year.

Google News rolls out redesigned following feed for Android users

 

[OnlyTech]

Users can export their magazines or submit the refund claim form until December 18, 2023.

Google News to end magazine support, offer refunds to eligible users

 

[Bapun]

Google News has stopped functioning, preventing users from accessing the latest updates on current events. While the main search engine continues to operate normally, attempting to use the "news" tab results in a frustrating dead end, with no results displayed for any search queries

Google News down for users worldwide - CNBC TV18

The outage began earlier today and has since seems to have affected users globally.

www.cnbctv18.com

 

[Bapun]

• Google News might be getting ready to try on a new look, changing how it presents stories.
• This interface would do away with the existing For You and Headlines tabs.
• Instead, we’d get a unified home screen with all our news — but it’s not yet working.

Google News app looks like it's planning a big reorganization (APK teardown)

Google appears to be working on some substantial Google News interface tweaks, as uncovered in a recent app teardown.

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Providing more data about news results in the EU

Google is running a test to see what happens when news results are removed for 1% of users in Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, …

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