January 26, 2006 | In Technology |
After nearly four years, Google has finally taken the popular Google News service out of Beta. This means that they have likely managed to work out the majority of bugs and problems with the advanced news-sorting algorithm, so as to provide the best and most targeted news headlines to searchers.
To celebrate its coming of age, Google News has also added a couple of new features, including a Personalized Search feature that will help users find interesting articles, based on their previous search history. There is also an option to view a list of the most popular news stories, targeted to your language and country.
By providing increased personalization, my hope is that the traffic for included websites will also become more highly targeted. That would certainly benefit me, as one of my most popular sites, TeleClick.ca, receives a significant portion of its traffic from Google News.
