This document provides an overview of Google News and related tools for staying up-to-date on current events and accessing archived news articles. It describes how Google News can be personalized based on user activity and preferences. It also introduces related Google services for receiving alerts on topics of interest, quickly browsing news articles, subscribing to RSS feeds, and searching historical news archives from various sources. The tools allow users to efficiently organize and access news both currently and retrospectively.

1. Keeping Up
and
Looking Back:
Google News
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2. Keeping Up
Personalized Google News
Google Alerts
Google Fas4lip
Google Reader

3. Standard US
Edition
Organized by Top
Stories
Jump to stories via
Left Sidebar
Right side bar
• Most Recent
• Local News
• Most Shared
• Videos

4. Google News for You
http://news.google.com/
• Automa'cally personalized If you are signed in
& have Web History enabled
• Will iden'fy stories based on your “clicks” and
searches
• May make recommenda'ons for stories
• Or do it manually

5. Personalized

6. Organize Google News
Choose page
layout
Drag & Drop to
organize sec'ons on
page
Frequency iden'fies
types of stories you
will see

7. All the news
that’s fit for
me—
according to
Google.

8. Google Alerts
http://www.google.com/alerts
• Monitor the Web for New Content
– Follow a developing news story
– Keeping current on a topic
– Get the latest on a celebrity or event
– Keep tabs on your favorite sports team
– Track men'ons of you or your kids or students

9. Set Up
Be specific!!

10. Manage

11. Receive

12. Google Fast Flip
http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/
• Web app to discover and share news ar'cles
• “Flip" through pages online as quickly as
flipping through a magazine
• View by sec'on
• Search topics for customiza'on
• Mobile version!

13. Fast Flip Front Page
Sources included in Fast Flip hQp://fasTlip.googlelabs.com/sources

14. By Section

15. By Interest

16. Google Reader
www.google.com/reader
• News comes to you from blogs, newspapers,
other sources
• Set up account
• Choose RSS* feeds
• Read & Share
*RSS=Real Simple Syndica'on

17. Customize
To TwiQer, Blogger, FB, etc
How it looks
Sharing se[ngs
Organize into folders

18. Add & Read
List View
Expanded View

19. Looking Back
Google News Timeline
Google Archives Search

20. Google News Timeline
http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com
• Organizes search results chronologically
• View news and other data sources on a
browsable, graphical 'meline
• Available data sources include recent and
historical news, scanned newspapers and
magazines, blog posts, sports scores, & more

21. Various Searches

22. Add Sources

23. Display

24. News Archives Search
http://news.google.com/archivesearch
• Historical Content from Google Partners
• Other online historical content

25. Show Timeline

26. Titanic Archive Search

27. By Decade & Month
Titanic Sinks
April 14, 1912

29. Browse Newspapers

30. News Timeline

31. Final Words
Advanced Search!!

32. BeDer results
Limit by year
Limit by
publicaIon
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