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Tuesday 24th January 2006
Good news for Google News - it's official 5:21PM, Tuesday 24th January 2006
There was a time when every Google service - and there is a wide variety - was in a perpetual state of beta, but things are changing.

Coinciding with the release of the Mac version, the PC release of Google Earth came out of beta this month. And following on from the portal-like Google Desktop, which came out of beta at the end of last year, the well-received news aggregation service, Google News, has now formally entered full service.

A couple of new features mark Google News leaving beta. First, Google has introduced what it calls 'personalized news headlines' - by integrating
 
 
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Personalized Search into Google News, users can receive recommended news stories based on their past news searches and articles.

Also, there's a new section in the left-hand column, 'Most Popular', which shows the most popular recent stories in the Google News edition you are viewing (as well as news.google.com there is a UK-specific version, for example).

You can read more about Google News and how its topic-clustering algorithms work at news.google.com/intl/en_us/about_google_news.html.

Created by Krishna Bharat in September 2002, the declared objective of Google News was to provide a broader perspective on current news stories, encouraging readers to browse multiple articles on a topic instead of just one.

The fully automated service has grown to cover 22 regional editions in 10 languages.

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