GoogleNews is a search engine that searches many participant news sites for the latest news based on key word searches. I use it to look for news related web pages with up-to-date information (created in the past ?couple years).
The advantage of using
GoogleNews (
http://news.google.com) instead of the regular
GoogleSearch is that I would not be getting pages that are created 5 years ago (e.g. search for Xml). And it is therefore very useful for beginners in a fast changing technical area, since it only returns news related websites that are recent.
- BeginnersMind can not diffrentiate which is out-dated vs current relevant information.
Disadvantage of using
GoogleNews is that the News facility does not have as wide coverage as the main
GoogleSearch, and that because it is a beta users cannot count on its availability, nor consistency of behaviour over time.
Not to be confused with GoogleGroups, which used to be DejaNews.
Example in late 2004
While doing a search on "SP2 patch" activex
- GoogleNews comes up with 1 item, an article titled "How to Break Windows..."
- GoogleSearch has 616 items, but did not show the one listed in GoogleNews (from addict3d...) unless it is asked to repeat search and include omitted items
See also GoogleNewsMetric
Google News