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Google News is a free news aggregator provided and operated by Google Inc, selecting most up-to-date information from thousands of publications by an automatic aggregation algorithm.

Launched in September 2002, the service was tagged as a beta test for over three years until January 2006. The initial idea was developed by .

Technical specifications

Introduced as a beta release in March 2002, the Google News service came out of beta on January 23, 2006. Different versions of the aggregator are available for more than 60 regions in 28 languages (as of March 15, 2012), with continuing development ongoing. Currently, service in the following languages is offered: Cantonese , Chinese, Hebrew , Hindi , Korean , Malayalam , Norwegian , Polish , Portuguese , Russian, Spanish, , , , , , , and .

Article selection News agencies Opposition Features and customization Coverage artifacts First click free Sources for news Example list of sources for English edition, as of May 2007 See also Notes

Krishna Bharat, , The Official Google Blog, January 23, 2006. "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". Accessed June 19, 2008.

. Retrieved April 2, 2010.

. Google. July 2003. Retrieved April 4, 2009.

. Retrieved April 5, 2010. "There are more than 25,000 publishers from around the world in Google News today."

As used to be reported by Google. See also Segev, Elad (2010). Google and the Digital Divide: The Biases of Online Knowledge, Oxford: Chandos Publishing.

. Google News Help Center. Retrieved April 5, 2010. "[.] we'll add a "(subscription)" tag to your publication name when your articles appear in our search results."

. Retrieved July 15, 2011.

. DTM news. August 3, 2007.

. Google. Retrieved April 26, 2008. "Today we re launching a new feature on Google News that will help you quickly and easily find original stories from news publishers including stories from some of the top news agencies in the world, such as the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, UK Press Association and the Canadian Press and go directly to the original source to read more."

. Retrieved January 12, 2010. "Google News has stopped hosting new articles from the Associated Press the search giant confirmed Monday, in a sign that contract negotiations between the two companies may have broken down."

The majority Dutch-language press is fully included in Google News

. 3 News NZ. 1 November 2012.

. Google. September 8, 2008. Retrieved September 8, 2008. "Today, we're launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives."

. Retrieved May 20, 2011.

. Retrieved September 15, 2008.

. Retrieved April 2, 2010.