Thursday, September 23, 2010

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[G] How to edit Google Maps and local business listing data

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 05:13 AM PDT

Google LatLong: How to edit Google Maps and local business listing data


The world is a big place that's constantly changing, so in digitally replicating it on Google Maps, you can imagine how much information we're working with. We get data for Google Maps from a number of sources, including third party providers, business owners and users like yourself. And while for the most part, our algorithms do a great job of accurately reflecting the real world on the map, there are some instances when we get it wrong.

If you notice something that's incorrect on Google Maps, chances are it's either an issue with our map data - things like city and road names - or with our business listing data. We have a number of simple tools that make it easy for you to correct or report any issues so that we can get the maps right. Your assistance helps us provide the most accurate and up-to-date maps possible, so you and other Google Maps users can find what you're looking for and be on your way.

Report a problem with our map data
  • Use the Report a Problem tool in the U.S. and Canada, most easily accessible by right-clicking on the map or clicking the link on the bottom right-hand-side of the map.
  • If anything with our map data is wrong, such as a road being renamed or a new highway on-ramp opening up, please submit a report. We work hard to fix the map based on user submissions, and try to resolve these issues as fast as we can.
  • Countries outside the U.S. and Canada should contact the Google Maps data provider to correct the information.

Edit business listing information directly on Maps
  • If you see incorrect information appearing on Google Maps listings in the U.S. (and many more countries), you can make updates to listings directly on Google Maps.
  • Once we've reviewed your edits, updates to the listing will go live within several hours.
  • If you are the business owner but have yet to claim your listing, see below for more information about Google Places.

Report incorrect business listing information
  • The best way to report incorrect information is to use the "Report a Problem" tool, where available. Report a Problem allows you to specify exactly what is incorrect about a listing.
  • Once these user-submitted reports are reviewed, updates to the listing will go live in a few weeks.

If you're a business owner, you should also claim your Google Places listing so that you can edit and update the listing that appears on Google, Google Maps and GOOG-411. Verifying your free business listing allows you to not only ensure that accurate information appears on the Place page for your business, but also enhance your online presence by adding photos, videos and even real-time updates like weekly specials to your Place page.

Claim your Google Places listing
  • Claim your Google Places listing by adding it at http://www.google.com/places or by clicking "Business Owner?" on the Place page for your business.
  • Verify your listing by PIN (postcard or phone). Within an hour, click the "See your listing on Google Maps" link in your account to see your listing's Place page.
  • If incorrect information is appearing in your listing, there are a number of different ways to let us know and get the information corrected.

Posted by Brianna Brekke, Senior Strategist, Google Places
URL: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-to-edit-google-maps-and-local.html

[G] Join us! Live Google Postini webinar featuring Enterprise Holdings on 9/28

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 03:17 AM PDT

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Join us! Live Google Postini webinar featuring Enterprise Holdings on 9/28

Enterprise Holdings is the largest rental car company in North America and operates Alamo Rent A Car, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and National Car Rental. They manage over 1.1 million cars, 68,000 employees and 7,600 locations around the world. When Enterprise Holdings wanted to add more security to their corporate e-mail, they chose Google Postini Services.

Join us for a free webinar on September 28, where Michael Preuss, Manager of Windows Engineering for Enterprise Holdings, will discuss why his company chose a cloud-based message security solution and how Postini's powerful spam filtering technology was able to help them address their email security challenges. Adam Swidler, Senior Manager with Google Enterprise, will also provide an overview of Google's security solutions and facilitate a deep-dive discussion into best-in-class practices for organizations interested in enterprise-grade protection.

A live Q & A session will follow. We hope you can join us!

Message Security in the Cloud
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
10 a.m. PDT / 1 p.m. EDT / 6 p.m. GMT
Register here

Posted by Adrian Soghoian, Google Postini Services team
URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/09/join-us-live-google-postini-webinar.html

[G] Turning off the track changes feature

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 12:36 AM PDT

Official Google Reader Blog: Turning off the track changes feature

As of September 30th, we'll be turning off track changes in Reader. While this isn't a widely used feature, we wanted to let you know in advance so you can set up a suitable alternative (such as http://page2rss.com). Your previous updates will not go away, but you will stop receiving new updates from any custom feeds you have set up.



We apologize for any inconvenience this causes -- and as always, please feel free to visit our help forum if you have any questions.

URL: http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2010/09/turning-off-track-changes-feature.html

[G] Learn about using Sitelinks in a new online course

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 12:01 AM PDT

Inside AdWords: Learn about using Sitelinks in a new online course

Ad Sitelinks is an AdWords extension feature that allows you to extend the value of your existing AdWords ads by providing additional links to specific, relevant content deeper within your sitemap. Rather than sending all users to the same landing page, Ad Sitelinks will display up to four additional Destination URLs for users to choose from. These links can help you improve your clickthrough rates and shorten the path to conversion. Learn more about Ad Sitelinks, including how to set them up and manage them in your account in this short, online course.

This course is best suited for advertisers who are comfortable with text ad management.

Please click on the country flag most appropriate to you to watch this course now.

(US) (UK)

If you have a few minutes to spare, check out some of our other courses in the AdWords Online Classroom.

Posted by Gordon Zhu, Inside AdWords crew
URL: http://adwords.blogspot.com/2010/09/learn-about-using-sitelinks-in-new.html

[G] Conrad Ventur refracts YouTube videos at MoMA

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 10:02 PM PDT

YouTube Blog: Conrad Ventur refracts YouTube videos at MoMA

Brooklyn-based Conrad Ventur makes installations from YouTube videos and currently has a show at MoMA PS1, running through October 18, 2010. Learn more about this video artiste...



1) How do you use video in your art?
I use video in my art in two different ways. First, I find older recordings that I incorporate into installation. I really love archive performances by singers and work with these as material in my art. Secondly, I also direct and shoot videos myself. In these works, I'm essentially re-filming or re-staging underground films from the '60s using the same actors that appeared in them the first time around. Some of these are Jack Smith and Andy Warhol films. My upcoming projects use some of these actors in stories that are non-quotational.

2) How do you use YouTube in your art?
For the last few years, I've enjoyed browsing YouTube. A video will attract my attention if it's an old recording that may have originally been meant for live television broadcast -- I like LIVE recordings mainly. I'm drawn to recordings that might have the potential to appeal to the collective memory of a larger audience. I take those videos and then project them through new-age crystal prisms or onto mirror balls in order to change the way the video content affects the viewer. I like my art to be more of an experience for the audience. It's best to see it in person.

3) What are you trying to convey through the installation currently at MoMA PS1?
In the installation at MoMA PS1, the curators and I decided to show a three channel video piece that we situated in the lower level of the museum. It's in an unexpected, small room. It's a bit of a surprise for museum-goers when they encounter these three recordings of the singer Shirley Bassey. It's the same song, "This Is My Life," that she performed in three different decades of her life. Each has its own projector, and the three play at the same time on a continuous loop: the young Shirley singing with the old Shirley, singing a song about her life. Rotating prisms are situated in front of each projector lens. The videos are projected directly through these prisms. Thus, the room becomes a kaleidoscope that you walk into. It's a swirling, refracted, multiplied space that came from the collective (and ever-changing) catalogue of YouTube.

4) If you were to create this installation in 100 years, based on the music icons of today, who/which videos would you include and why?
If in 100 years I could look back and see how the careers and lives of contemporary singers unfold, I would choose live recordings of Micheal Jackson to use in an installation. Most importantly, in 100 years, the varnish will rub off and we'll be able to see clearly how the march of time resonates with the myth of MJ. He was a tremendous talent and was extremely generous to his audiences as a performer. His untimely death is an unfortunate bookend to a life lived in the spotlight which we all are familiar with in some way. An installation would be an interesting format to tell his story in a way that appeals to the audience's senses on many levels.

5) What are your top 5 videos of all time on the site?
I'm always looking for new material to capture my imagination. Here are a few that I like:





















You can subscribe to Conrad Ventur's YouTube channel here.


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/J3oO46h9XkI/conrad-ventur-refracts-youtube-videos.html

[G] Fun and Games with Google Books

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 07:23 PM PDT

Inside Google Books: Fun and Games with Google Books

Posted by Cheryl Pon, Books Online Team

[Please note, some images in this post may not be available in full view to users outside of the United States.]

As video games become ever more popular, I've begun to wonder how pre-video game generations kept themselves entertained. Games have always been a part of our culture, whether in the form of a leisurely game of bridge or a high-intensity video game of zombies or fantasy worlds.

I spent an afternoon diving through Google Books to examine the history of games, our source of relaxation, happiness, and camaraderie. The Clip feature on Google Books allowed me to easily to capture these great images from game blasts from the past!

Chess, one of the older games, was derived from an ancient game called Chaturanga, created by Hindoo Puranas 3000 years before the Christian era. The layout of the board mimics the field of battle, with soldiers, a king, an elephant, a ship, and a horse, each with its own accompanying pawns.



Every four years we continue to celebrate the Olympics, which were born from the ancient sporting festivals of Greece. Crowds observed Grecians compete for glory in foot races, gymnastic exercises, and combat-style games like Caestus, which involved gauntlets and the shedding of much blood. The ancient Olympic games in Greece opened and closed with marvelous ceremonies in the city of Olympia, a tradition that was carried on for many centuries thereafter.



As the centuries passed, different games began to evolve, as demonstrated by The Book of Parlour Games by Catharine Harbeson Waterman. The game, Pinch Without Laughing, was played during an afternoon of tea with guests. The object of the game was to pinch the nose of one's neighbor, who must submit without laughing. Whoever smiled or laughed lost the game! The object of the game is to pinch the nose of one's neighbor, who must submit without laughing but if he or she as much as smiles, loses the game!



School, Church, and Home Games by George O. Draper is a treasure trove of games that can be played by children and students. The author shares trick games, games for the dining table, and even competitive stunts. This book details games for everyone, including hide and seek, Simon Says, and musical chairs - games many remember fondly from our own childhood!

If rain has you stuck inside, check out My Book of Indoor Games by Clarence Squareman if you're stuck inside because it's rainy. If you're somewhere sunny and tropical, explore your athletic capabilities with Outdoor Sports and Games by Claude H. Miller, or gather your friends and play some Games For Everybody by May C. Hofmann.
URL: http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/09/fun-and-games-with-google-books.html

[G] Back-To-Basics: The Power of Exclusion

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 05:36 PM PDT

Google Analytics Blog: Back-To-Basics: The Power of Exclusion

I have a friend who owns a store in my neighborhood. He decided to run a 50%-off special on a site that specializes in one-day promotions to its members. His goal was to get wider exposure for his store and gain some new customers. If you look at the graph, you can see that the day that the promotion ran, traffic to his site spiked. Traffic then dropped off to normal the next day, but this was expected given the nature of this particular campaign.












The store owner was happy to see the spike in traffic, but he wanted to learn more. So he did something clever and created an advanced segment. But instead of creating an advanced segment for traffic from just the promotional site, he did the exact opposite. He created a segment that excluded all the promotional traffic.

Why? It's a great example of what I call the power of exclusion. More about that in a minute, but first let's look at how you would create a segment that excludes traffic from a specific site.

First, click the Advanced Segments drop down and click "Create a new advanced segment".





















From the menu on the left, drag Source into the working area. Select the condition "Does not contain". Enter the name of the site from which you want to exclude traffic, for example "example.com". Then name and save the segment.











To apply the segment, click the Advanced Segments drop down again and select your newly created segment. (You'll see it under Custom Segments.) In this case, I named this segment "exclude promo site".














Take a look at the graph below and you'll see why this was a smart idea. The blue line is all traffic. The orange line is all traffic except traffic from the promotional site. Notice something interesting? That's right. The orange line also shows a spike, even though it doesn't include any referrals from the promo site.










This is the power of exclusion: If you want to find out how effective something is -- whether it's a traffic source, a promo, or a campaign -- try excluding its influence from your data. You might be surprised at what you find.

So, why is there a traffic spike in the "exclude promo site" segment? Tune in next week and find out. In the meantime, watch this short video tutorial to re-acquaint yourself with advanced segments.

Posted by Alden DeSoto, Google Analytics Team
URL: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2010/09/back-to-basics-power-of-exclusion.html

[G] What’s different about the new Google Docs: Conflict resolution

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 05:15 PM PDT

Official Google Docs Blog: What's different about the new Google Docs: Conflict resolution

Editor's note: This is the second in a series of three posts about the collaboration technology in Google Docs. Yesterday, we explained some of the technical challenges behind real time collaboration.

Think of the history of a document as a series of changes. In Google documents, all edits boil down to three basic types of changes: inserting text, deleting text, and applying styles to a range of text. We save your document as a revision log consisting of a list of these changes. When someone edits a document, they're not modifying the underlying characters that represents the document. Instead they are appending their change to the end of the revision log. To display a document, we replay the revision log from the beginning.

To see what these changes look like, suppose that a document edited by John and Luiz initially reads; EASY AS 123. If John (represented by green) changes the document to EASY AS ABC, then he is making four changes:


Collaboration is not quite as simple as sending these changes to the other editors because people get out of sync. Suppose as John is typing, Luiz (represented by yellow) begins to change his document to IT'S EASY AS 123. He first inserts the I and the T at the beginning of the document:


Suppose Luiz naively applies John's first change {DeleteText @9-11}:


He deleted the wrong characters! Luiz had two characters at the beginning of the doc that John was never aware of. So the location of John's change was wrong relative to Luiz's version of the document. To avoid this problem, Luiz must transform John's changes and make them relative to his local document. In this case, when Luiz receives changes from John he needs to know to shift the changes over by two characters to adjust for the IT that Luiz added. Once he does this transformation and applies John's first change, he gets:


Much better. The algorithm that we use to handle these shifts is called operational transformation (OT). If OT is implemented correctly, it guarantees that once all editors have received all changes, everyone will be looking at the same version of the document.

The OT logic in documents must handle all of the different ways that InsertText, DeleteText, and ApplyStyle changes can be paired and transformed against each other. The example above showed DeleteText being transformed against InsertText. To get a feel for how this works, here are a couple more examples of simple transformations:
  • Style ranges expand when they are transformed against text insertions: {ApplyStyle bold @10-20} transformed against {InsertText 'ABC' @15} results in {ApplyStyle Bold @10-23}.
  • Sometimes changes don't conflict and there's no need to transform anything. For example when a style change is transformed against a different type of style change, there is no conflict: {ApplyStyle italic @10-20} transformed against {ApplyStyle font-color=red @0-30} results in the same {ApplyStyle italic @10-20} because the range of text can be both red and italic simultaneously.
Collaboration in Google Docs consists of sending changes from one editor to the server, and then to the other editors. Each editor transforms incoming changes so that they make sense relative to the local version of the document. Tomorrow's post will outline the protocol for deciding when each editor uses operational transformation.

Posted by: John Day-Richter, Software Engineer
URL: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/09/whats-different-about-new-google-docs_22.html

[G] Finding Places on the Web: Rich Snippets for Local Search

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 04:10 PM PDT

Google LatLong: Finding Places on the Web: Rich Snippets for Local Search


We're sharing some news today that we hope webmasters will find exciting. As you know, we're constantly working to organize the world's information — be it textual, visual, geographic or any other type of useful data. From a local search perspective, part of this effort means looking for all the great web pages that reference a particular place. The Internet is teeming with useful information about local places and points of interest, and we do our best to deliver relevant search results that help shed light on locations all across the globe.

Today, we're announcing that your use of Rich Snippets can help people find the web pages you've created that may reference a specific place or location. By using structured HTML formats like hCard to markup the business or organization described on your page, you make it easier for search engines like Google to properly classify your site, recognize and understand that its content is about a particular place, and make it discoverable to users on Place pages.

You can get started by reviewing these tips for using Rich Snippets for Local Search. Whether you're creating a website for your own business, an article on a newly opened restaurant, or a guide to the best places in town, your precise markup helps associate your site with the search results for that particular place. Though this markup does not guarantee that your site will be shown in search results, we're excited to expand support for making the web better organized around real world places.

Posted by Carter Maslan, Director of Product Management, Local Search
URL: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/09/finding-places-on-web-rich-snippets-for.html

[G] Oldest Real Estate Brokerage in US Chooses Google Apps to enable growth and mobility

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 02:16 PM PDT

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Oldest Real Estate Brokerage in US Chooses Google Apps to enable growth and mobility

Editors note: As part of our Going Google Everywhere series, today's guest blogger is Mark Steward, IT Director at Baird & Warner. Learn more about other organizations that have gone Google on our community map.

Family owned and operated since 1855, Baird & Warner is the oldest residential real estate brokerage in the nation, with 26 branch offices servicing more than 300 communities throughout northeastern Illinois. Baird & Warner provides a full range of services for consumers including residential sales, financial services, title services and home services.

Having been in business for as long as we have, our company has gone through a lot of disruptive changes, not just dramatic market shifts like the current downturn, but also the emergence of new technologies. Over the years we've shifted from desktop phones to mobile phones, and more recently, from on-premise IT solutions to the Web as a platform. In IT, we are constantly reevaluating which tools will best support our Realtors® in the field, and administrative staff back at our headquarters in Chicago.

Earlier this year we began looking at how we could improve our e-mail and messaging system. Because of the nature of our business, the majority of our employees are highly mobile and independent. These 1,600 agents operate as islands, and depend on mobile devices to do their work from any location. To support them, we had been using a Microsoft Exchange alternative called Kerio that uses the Outlook client and provides a Webmail product, but we began to see performance issues and maintaining the infrastructure was becoming increasingly costly.

We began to look at alternatives. We needed a messaging solution that could grow with us for the long-term and that would work well for all employees, but we were also were feeling cautious because of the economy. We didn't want to take a huge risk. Since I've been a Gmail user since it was in beta, I had been keeping my eye on Google Apps and how its enterprise offerings have grown.

My positive experience with Gmail helped me to narrow our choices down to Google Apps and Hosted Exchange. After running a cost comparison, the choice became pretty clear. Since Google Apps takes care of maintenance and software updates, the value proposition for a company of our size is pretty substantial. We chose Apps for its capabilities, but the fact that we saved a substantial amount of money over Microsoft Exchange was a nice bonus.

To help us make the transition, we brought in Cloud Sherpas, a Google authorized reseller since 2008. Cloud Sherpas provides a full suite of migration, deployment, and training services for Google Apps, which made it much easier for us to get up and running. The company also offers tools through the Google Apps Marketplace that help IT administrators better manage Google Apps.

Clouds Sherpas did all the setup and configuration of Google Apps and trained us on how to migrate our old mail, contacts and calendar data. After we learned the processes, we migrated the rest of the company. They also provided train-the-trainer services and webinar training for our remote offices. This was critical for us because some users had never used web-based email, so transitioning them to a new way of working took extra time but was critical for our success. Cloud Sherpas provided specialized training for Outlook users, and gave a step-by-step process for learning to do the same tasks in Gmail.

We initially deployed Gmail, Calendar and Chat. We currently have a small team reviewing our existing intranet and determining how we can migrate it to Google Sites and Google Docs in the future. For now, however, we are already seeing a host of benefits just from migrating our messaging system.

Improved mobile access to email is a big win for us. From a cost perspective, with Google Apps there is nothing additional that we need to do, buy or maintain to enable mobile devices. It just works straight out of the box on virtually any mobile device that our employees care to use. Previously, we were using IMAP to enable mobile e-mail. Unfortunately, it wasn't real time, which is critical in our business. Now, our agents in the field get real-time push email and access to their entire mailbox from their mobile devices.

Beyond better mobile email access, faster performance and infrastructure cost savings, we're also pretty happy about not having to spend any time maintaining and upgrading our messaging systems.

What's equally important, however, is that our employees like using Google Apps. The new tools have eliminated their number-one problem, which was wasting time managing a small inbox. Whereas before they only had 100 MB of space, with Gmail, they get up to 25 GB of storage. There's really no need to ever clean out your inbox now. Our Realtors® drive our business, and we need to give them the tools that allow them to be more productive on behalf of their clients. Because if they're happy, we're happy.

Posted by Ashley Chandler, Google Apps team
URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/09/oldest-real-estate-brokerage-in-us.html

[G] Fantastic Fest curates the YouTube homepage

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 12:44 PM PDT

YouTube Blog: Fantastic Fest curates the YouTube homepage

If you've ever been to the Alamo Drafthouse theaters in Texas (where you can order fried pickles and other delicacies directly to your seat!), you know the Alamo team has a unique knack for programming. In addition to bringing Texans major motion pictures, Alamo theaters play Mad Men on Sundays, host Glee sing-a-longs and coordinate other quirky community events (isn't it time someone brings the Alamo to San Francisco...hint, hint?). The Alamo team is also behind Fantastic Fest, the largest genre film festival in the U.S., which kicks off in Austin, Texas tomorrow. There, genre movie lovers can find horror, fantasy and sci-fi films from around the world.





To celebrate tomorrow's launch, Fantastic Fest programmers are curating the YouTube homepage with a collection of short films from filmmakers who have played at past festivals. Featuring incredible special effects and offbeat comedy, the line-up is as varied as the Fantastic Fest itself.





To learn more about the programming choices, check out this video from Alamo Drafthouse CEO Tim League:











Sara Pollack, Entertainment Marketing Manager, recently watched "Sesame Street: Katy Perry Song: Hot and Cold."


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/kfK66XEOBG0/fantastic-fest-curates-youtube-homepage.html

[G] One place to find everything new from Google

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 12:30 PM PDT

Official Google Blog: One place to find everything new from Google

If it seems to you like every day Google releases a new product or feature, well, it seems like that to us too. The central place we tell you about most of these is through the official Google Blog Network, where you'll find more than 100 blogs covering all kinds of products, policy issues, technical projects and much more.

But if you want to keep up just with what's new (or even just what Google does besides search), you'll want to know about Google New. A few of us had a 20 percent project idea: create a single destination called Google New where people could find the latest product and feature launches from Google. It's designed to pull in just those posts from various blogs. We hope it helps you find something useful you've never tried before.



Posted by Ji Lee, Google Creative Lab
URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/one-place-to-find-everything-new-from.html

[G] Google News turns eight

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 12:30 PM PDT

Official Google Blog: Google News turns eight

(Cross-posted from the Google News blog)

Today we celebrate the eighth birthday of Google News. Not long after the tragic events of September 11, 2001, we started building and testing Google News with the aim of helping you find current events from a wide variety of global and political perspectives. On September 22, 2002, Google News rolled out to all English-language readers, with a dedicated News tab on Google.com.


Over the years we've made thousands of changes to deliver more news to more users—faster, and with enhanced customization, sharing and serendipity. We've added video, local news, custom sections, scanned newspaper archives and a redesigned homepage. We've grown from 4,000 sources to more than 50,000, and from one English edition to 72 editions in 30 languages.


We'd like to take this opportunity to thank our loyal users and the news publishers working hard to keep you informed. Thousands of stories are made more discoverable through Google News each day. Based on the number of articles indexed by Google News, here are the largest news stories from each of the last eight years:
The 2008 election of President Obama takes the cake as the biggest news story since Google News was born.

This year, as we blow out our candles we'll make one wish: that we serve you—our users and publishing partners—better than ever before in the years to come.

Posted by Krishna Bharat, founder and engineering head, and Chris Beckmann, product manager, Google News
URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-news-turns-eight.html

[G] Google News turns eight

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 09:31 AM PDT

Google News Blog: Google News turns eight

Posted by Krishna Bharat, founder and engineering head, and Chris Beckmann, product manager, Google News

(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)

Today we celebrate the eighth birthday of Google News. Not long after the tragic events of September 11, 2001, we started building and testing Google News with the aim of helping you find current events from a wide variety of global and political perspectives. On September 22, 2002, Google News rolled out to all English-language readers, with a dedicated News tab on Google.com.


Over the years we've made thousands of changes to deliver more news to more users—faster, and with enhanced customization, sharing and serendipity. We've added video, local news, custom sections, scanned newspaper archives and a redesigned homepage. We've grown from 4,000 sources to more than 50,000, and from one English edition to 72 editions in 30 languages.


We'd like to take this opportunity to thank our loyal users and the news publishers working hard to keep you informed. Thousands of stories are made more discoverable through Google News each day. Based on the number of articles indexed by Google News, here are the largest news stories from each of the last eight years:
The 2008 election of President Obama takes the cake as the biggest news story since Google News was born.

This year, as we blow out our candles we'll make one wish: that we serve you—our users and publishing partners—better than ever before in the years to come.
URL: http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-news-turns-eight.html
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