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April 15, 2009

Google News Contributes to Real-Time News Trend with "Timeline of Articles"

Google News has rolled out a "Timeline of articles" so that users can keep track of events as they occur or occurred. Simply click on the link to all articles beneath a cluster of news stories about a news event. You'll see a graph on the right hand side.

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I can't help but think of how there seems to be this race to compete in real-time news. Twitter has changed news because you can get real-life witness (and non-journalist) accounts about an event as it happens.

For example, earthquakes are often Tweeted, and recently Google added recent earthquake results to its main search site.

I expect to see more features along this line in Google News and other online news sites as time goes by.

Related Reading:
Google News Expands Local Feature to UK, Canada, and India
Google News Gets Ads in Search Results

Posted by Nathania Johnson on April 15, 2009 10:40 AM

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Comments

I like this, though it's not very interactive. That's been there for about 2 weeks now.

Umang  April 15, 2009 12:46 PM

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