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Google News turns eight
September 22, 2010
(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:
2003:
Iraq War begins with the invasion of Iraq by the U.S. and allied forces
2004:
George W. Bush defeats Senator John Kerry in U.S. Presidential election
2005:
Hurricane Katrina strikes U.S. Gulf Coast
2006:
Democrats take Congress and Nancy Pelosi becomes first female speaker of the House
2007:
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated
2008:
Barack Obama elected 44th president of the United States
2009:
Death of Michael Jackson
2010 (to date):
7.0-magnitude earthquake occurs in Haiti
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
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