July 21, 2011
Have you ever wished you could earn an achievement for sucking down information in a news article, just to show your friends how smart you are? Now, thanks to a new feature unveiled on Google News called badges, you can! Similar to the rewards found in many video games, badges are earned by reading articles through Google News.
April 6, 2011
One day when I was browsing news stories, I noticed that one particular story was published not by CNN, Associated Press or the Washington Post, but instead by a small time blogger who had landed a pretty cool exclusive story. Front page Google News. For a moment I thought about the traffic that must have offered her site. So I set out to learn exactly what it takes to become an authorized Google News publisher.
March 8, 2011
We all love neat RSS hacks, right? Well, here’s some interesting ways to use Google RSS news feeds. Many of us MakeUseOf readers are keen readers of Google News because it’s an easy way to see news articles from newspapers worldwide, grouped by topic and also grouped with similar headlines. However, not everyone realises that [...]
February 5, 2011
Google News does a really good job of aggregating news from a multitude of data sources and from all over the world. However, how it often happens with Google, while it is good at collecting and ranking the information, one could always do better with representing and organizing that information. This post shares 3 Google [...]
August 4, 2010
It’s an irony that Google hides behind its simple page, a gargantuan network of subsidiary web services. The one textbox page of Google Search is like a little door that leads inside to a labyrinth. The way we navigate through Google could make it our Aladdin’s Cave or our personal la-la land. A couple of [...]
April 1, 2010
Information is always changing. Every second there are lots of articles completed & published somewhere in the world. It can be really intimidating to sort out the good from the bad, the news from the junk, and the hot from the not. While Google News does a really good job of aggregating news from all [...]
February 11, 2010
The Internet has changed the way we see and get information, that’s undeniable. But despite the revolution, the traditional way of getting and enjoying news is barely altered. People still love the good old newspaper. Maybe it’s the smell of ink in the morning, or maybe it’s the texture of the papers on your fingers, [...]
January 18, 2010
While the iPhone interface for Google Reader is pretty slick, there are a few extra options that it could do with. The free version of MobileRSS [iTunes Store link], a Google Reader iPhone app makes up for what Google have missed out on. Setting up the Google Reader app is simple. On launching it, you’ll [...]
November 7, 2009
The men in white coats (or white T-Shirts) at Google are at it again. They just gave us another way to overload ourselves with information culled from the web. Lot of us read Google news for headlines from around the world. The Google News service collects breaking news as published by the news services from [...]
