Google News Refreshed

Google News has been my go-to source for news and has served as my homepage since it was released in 2002. I have always liked how Google News allows me to see what’s going on with top stories and then broken out by different interest areas such as Business, Technology, Entertainment, Local, and more. For each story listed, if I’m interested in reading other angles, Google News provides all of the other sources for a given story.

What I like the most about this is that I’m not boxed into a certain opinion just because I like a particular source. For example, when I used to receive the print version of The New York Times and only watched CNN, those were my two main sources for news. While both news sources try to stay in the middle and report the full details of a story, of course, there are other stories, access, and angles that different media sources receive. When Google News debuted, it immediately solved my curiosity to read multiple angles and to consume as much news as I could get my hands on.

Since Google News launched it has only had a few updates to it.  However, the Google News team has just launched a new, refreshed version with the goal of giving users more access to the specific news that is important to them.

The most noticeable aspect of this is when you first log in to the refreshed version, in the “News for You” section, Google asks you to customize your experience by telling them how often you read news from the different sections that Google News provides. Your choices are “Never”, “Sometimes”, or “Always”. You also have the option to provide custom topics that interests you besides the standard topic areas. Once you submit your choices to Google it adapts to your experience to show you news that is curated to your interests.

This is just one of several features of the refreshed Google News. To see all of the new features, check out the video below.

I’m really excited to have seen Google make these updates and I’m looking forward to seeing how well it provides more relevant news based on the ratings and interests I provided.

Do you use Google News? What are your thoughts on the updates? If you’re not a Google News user, how do you receive your news?

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