Searching for news
Google News crawls news sites, finds stories, ranks the sources, processes gathered data in many other ways, and builds pages for the various geographic and language editions.
Everything is automatic, but the input data gets edited by editors of the various media prior to being processed by Google. As a result, Google News reflects opinions and biases existing in the mainstream media.
Google doesn't disclose the details of their news sources, but there are sites tracking Google News. One of them, Newsknife.com, released their version of Google News sources (opens in new window).
You can use search techniques described in Google search basics, ex.
"digital camera" sony OR canon
or operators that are specific to Google News, such as source: or location:.
You can search for news in the following ways:
- Use the Search box for either simple searches or including search operators
- Use Advaned News Search page
- Use News Archive search for news older than 30 days
- Browse news categories
The results list will contain a list of links to news articles, each of which contains your keyword(s) in their headline, body, or URL.
If you wish to see a results page, click here
.Advaned News Search page
The Advaned Search page supports basically the same functions as the search operators.
There are a few differences. The page form matches all operators and allows more convenient control over dates of publication. Search operators allow you to create more powerful queries, for instance, search headlines for one keyword and body text for another, which is impossible with the advanced search form.
The details of the Advaned Search page are described here.
Search in News Archive
You can access Google News Archive at http://news.google.com/archivesearch, or via the News archive search link on the main Google News page. News archive results can also occur when you search on Google News or do a general Google web search.
Google does not host the content, it only provides links to items stored in the databases of content providers and aggregators such as Time, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Guardian, Factiva, LexisNexis and Thomson Gale. Full-text of content going back 200 years has been indexed.
Search results look similar to those produced by a search on Google News, with free and fee-based content labeled accordingly. There are some additions such as automatically created timelines.
Simple search covers the Google News database in its entirety. It contains information harvested from more than 4500 news sources for the last 30 days or so.
If the first few pages of results do not have all the data you seek, you may need to target your search using the Advaned Search page or search operators.
The title of an article responds to the intitle: operator because it automatically becomes the title of the respective web page.
Also the allintitle: operator can be used for the same purpose, see Google search basics for details on operators.
This example shows how to find general news about real estate in Olympia, WA. The name of this source was taken from the Newsknife.com list of Google News sources.
The rule of thumb is to use underscores instead of spaces when entering a source title with the source: operator.
You can specify countries or U.S. states.