Cool Tool for News Use
Posted by Hicham Alaoui, Associate Product Marketing Manager Our friends at the Toolbar team recently launched Google Toolbar 5 for Internet Explorer out of beta in 40 languages. To celebrate this occasion and Toolbar’s upcoming eighth birthday , we upgraded our Google News Toolbar gadget: You’ll now find tabs with different Google News sections embedded directly into the toolbar, so you can read the news as soon as it breaks, browse top news headlines and images, all without having to leave the site you’re on: You can click through the different categories to see the top stories in the U.S., World, Entertainment, and Sci-Tech domains
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Cool Tool for News Use
New and Hot Trends
I’ve noticed a few trends in the Indian fashion industry that I absolutely love. These trends incorporate the glamour of old Hollywood with the chic and style of the retro decades. I’m a big fan! Fishnet Gloves I think teaming up a pair (or just a single) sexy fishnet or glamorous white/black silk gloves with a saree is the greatest thing since the saree blouse! It’s stylish, it’s glamorous, it’s sensual and it’s totally daring and new to the Desi fashion world.
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Say what?
Posted by Jack Hebert, Software Engineer While political consistency (or inconsistency) can be funny, as John Stewart pointed out in a recent episode of the Daily Show , it can also be a serious political matter. With upcoming elections in the United States and Canada, we’ve built a tool that you can use to compare what candidates and other political figures are saying about different issues: we call it ” In Quotes .” As you might know, Google News already extracts quotes from news articles. Even so, it was a pretty tedious process to compare what two people were saying about a particular topic.
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Google News in മലയാളം (Malayalam)
Posted by Cibu Johny and Deepak Raghuwanshi, Software Engineers എല്ലാവര്ക്കും ഓണാശംസകള്! To all our Malayalam-speaking readers, we want to wish you Onashamsakal . We are very happy to mark this festive season with the launch of Google News in Malayalam . Like all Google news editions, the Malayalam edition gathers news from several Malayalam sources and automatically arranges these stories in different sections.
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Update on United Airlines story
Posted by Josh Cohen, Business Product Manager Aggregators like Google News were today the subject of news – this time pertaining to a 2002 story regarding United Airlines. For those of you who are interested in the nuts and bolts of why this was indexed by Google News, here are the details: On Saturday, September 6th at 10:36PM Pacific, the Google crawler discovered a new link on the Florida Sun-Sentinel website in a section of the most viewed stories labeled “Popular Stories: Business.” The link appeared in that section sometime after Googlebot’s last crawl at 10:17PM; because the crawler saw this new link appear, it followed it to an article titled “UAL Files for Bankruptcy.” The only date found in the context of the article indicated that the article was from September 7, 2008. The article was indexed and then available through Google News search, but was not shown on our headlines pages.
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