For all of its progress, Google had left Google News alone for what seemed an eternity. It wasn't fixing what wasn't broken.
But it's redesigned it in recent days and provided a much more flexible platform for searched content. The result is a new Google News with relevant stories, personalized and shareable.
In using it the last couple of days it is a clear improvement and a rival of other services that assemble personal dashboards. It assembles a stream of relevant headlines (how, it's not clear). It offers opportunities to accentuate certain preferred sources and demote others. It provides space for a focus on particular topic. It makes it easy to share content you find.
What isn't clear is where this leads for Google. Its iGoogle feature seems like it has a cousin and its new features seem very rivalrous to those of Yahoo in terms of aggregating relevant work.
But it's redesigned it in recent days and provided a much more flexible platform for searched content. The result is a new Google News with relevant stories, personalized and shareable.
In using it the last couple of days it is a clear improvement and a rival of other services that assemble personal dashboards. It assembles a stream of relevant headlines (how, it's not clear). It offers opportunities to accentuate certain preferred sources and demote others. It provides space for a focus on particular topic. It makes it easy to share content you find.
What isn't clear is where this leads for Google. Its iGoogle feature seems like it has a cousin and its new features seem very rivalrous to those of Yahoo in terms of aggregating relevant work.
