Showing posts with label Google News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google News. Show all posts
Today Google announced a completely new Google News offering for the iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre platforms, so now this phone user will enjoy mobile-optimized version of Google News on the go.
( Google News Mobile Interface for iPhone)

Google already offers a mobile optimized version of Google News for other phones, such as BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and S60, so this increased their reach.

The new version provides the same results, richness and personalization on a mobile phone as Google News provides on desktop. The new homepage displays more stories, sources, and images while keeping a familiar look and feel of Google News. Also, you can now reach your favorite sections, discover new ones, find articles, and play videos in fewer clicks. If you are an existing Google News reader on desktop, you will find that all of your personalizations are honored in this mobile version too. Google News for mobile is now available in 29 languages and 70 editions.

Pick up your mobile phone and point your browser to http://news.google.com to catch up on news on the go. Anytime and anywhere!
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BBC has redesign it's weather website with set of new features and services. Site use Geo based location system which automatically detect your geographical location and according to that it will show you the weather data or you can set and save your location manually.

It also show you different maps for pressure, temperature & General. You can also able to see past 12 hour activity in Map. It provides you forecast from local to Global.

You can add six location as you like under "My weather" tab for Eg: your Home Town & Your business trip destination City. The new site is designed to give you all the information you need for your local area, from a detailed forecast for the next 24 hours and 5 day outlook to maps, videos of regional weather broadcasts if you have missed them on TV or see new photos in Photo Gallery.

New weather website also cover different topics and provide the best updates that you need. Updates related,
  • Climate Change
  • Climate Guides
  • Coastal Forecasts
  • Inshore Waters
  • Monthly Outlook
  • Shipping Forecast
  • Snow sports
  • Sports Forecasts
  • Tide Tables
The site is now easier to navigate. New site is a module based so it's interactive. you can open and close different module depending on whether you are interested in the forecast info or not. The map presenter is also more interactive and you can view maps for surrounding areas without leaving the page.You can save new weather site as your Home page so whenever you open your browser you can get weather information or get weather updates via RSS feeds and you can also able to share weather news to different social sites like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious etc. So go and try out new user friendly Weather website from BBC.
Now you can get news via Twitter. CNN already acquired account @cnnbrk which provides breaking news but now Google Come up with Twitter with a same kind of approach. As you know Tweetmeme aggregate story around he Internet and bring it to Twitter. Same kind of feature come to Google news.


Google News aggregates stories from over 25,000 news sources updated continuously. Starting today, they're offering users an additional channel to follow the news by posting links to top stories as they become available on the new googlenews Twitter account.

5 days ago Google Maps also joint the Twitter Wagon now Google News also come up.
Google introduce new Timeline feature. It presents Google News results chronologically in a timeline view that organizes many different types of search results on a zoomable, graphical timeline. You can zoom in and out, or navigate through the timeline by dragging. Users also can choose to display the most important stories about a topic by adjusting the time scale to days, weeks, months, years, or decades & it is also easy to restrict searches by the type of source, including blogs, newspapers, news photos, and Wikipedia.

Google News Timeline presents search results from a wide range of sources like Hosted News partners, and YouTube partner videos which play right in the timeline interface. You can also search for thousands of archival newspapers and magazines from Google News Archive Search and Google Book Search. You can also add Blog Search results & some of searches for blogs also included a number of results from public twitter profiles & Freebase and other the type of content, including books, music, movies, tv shows, video games, and even artists.

Google having its own domain for labs now Googlelabs.com which is hosted on Google App Engine.

searching for "Breaking News" in "Blogs" showing only CNN.com news ! !