Posted by David Garnick, News Engineering Team I'm a bit of a junkie for political news, and of course I follow elections. The U.S. section of Google News covers a broad range of topics that are of interest to a national audience; thus, typically, few stories pertain to elections. There is no simple query that I can use in the News search box that will give me a broad and current selection of stories related to the elections.

Posted by Sadeesh Duraisamy & Prasanna Meda, Software Engineers We're excited to share a new feature for Google News India : you can now get the latest cricket scores right on the front page! If there's a cricket match going on somewhere in the world )and there always is( you will have the latest information available. And if you want all the cricket news in addition to the latest scores while you're on the Google News front page,

Posted by Sheng Yu and Sean Wan, Software Engineers Want to find articles from a specific news source? You may not know of some tricks to make Google News do the work for you. Try using our site operator along with a keyword, like this: [site:iht.com Paris]. Or you can also use our advanced news search page. Just type the source name into the news source box and click the search button, and you'll get stories from the source you want.

Posted by Sharad Jain, Software Engineer The goal of Google News has always been to offer as many perspectives on a story as possible to help you better understand current events. That's why we crawl thousands of sources from around the world. We try to help you find stories in every language, in every country, from every newspaper and for every story. But Google News isn't just about including every story; it's about helping you find the stories that matter most to you.

Posted by Andy Golding, News Engineering Team Hey news publishers, have you checked out Google's Webmaster Tools lately? Did you know that you can submit a sitemap listing specific articles you would like us to include in Google News? Recently, we announced that this capability is available to all publishers in all Google News editions. Today,

Posted by Greta Ghizzo Van Everen, News Support Team If you rely on getting your daily dose of news from your personalized Google News homepage, here are a couple of things you can do to access it from anywhere in the world. In case you're not familiar, personalizing your Google News homepage allows you to create custom sections that contain stories on a specific topic. You can also add standard sections )such as Business or World( from other regional and language editions.

Posted by Tina Huang and Dan Meredith, News Team Engineers Whether it is from our homepage , one of our RSS feeds , or on a mobile device, Google News seeks to connect people with the news that matters to them - wherever they may be. As part of that goal we are pleased to announce the Google News Application for Facebook . This experimental application enables users to create custom sections or select from a set of pre-defined topics,

Posted by Abraham Epton, News Support Team I recently moved about two thousand miles across the country, and aside from the lack of good pizza, one of the most disorienting things about having moved is not knowing what's going on back home. That's why I'd like to tell you about one of my favorite Google tools, Google Alerts , which makes staying current as simple as checking your email every morning. I use Alerts to keep track of news about Chicago politics,

Posted by Benoit Lafortune, News Support Team If you're a news publisher and want greater control over how your articles get included in Google News, we've got a great opportunity for you: Today we made Google News sitemaps available globally. If your site is currently included in Google News, you can now directly submit your most recent articles via News sitemaps in all the languages we support.

Posted by Christina Cacioppo, News Support Team intern As a college student, I use Google every day - email , news , documents and spreadsheets - you name the product, and I probably use it. This has made my summer internship with the Google News Support team even more illuminating. Though I thought I knew the ins and outs of many Google products )and there are lots of them(, I'm actually only a beginner.

Posted by Lucy Zhang, News Engineering Team One of our goals at Google News is to offer as many different perspectives on the news as possible. That means bringing content from multiple sources together in a way we hope you find to be organized and relevant. Now we're adding video to the mix: we're showing related news videos along with our news articles to give you a broader spectrum of info available. You'll see the prefix "Video" next to story titles,

Posted by Asif Zahir, Product Team We launched Google News for mobile devices last year to bring you access to the news you want, whenever you want. You can search for and browse through your favorite news headlines, all optimized for viewing on a mobile phone. You can even customize the homepage to add news sections that you care about. What I like to keep in mind, though, is not just how convenient Google News for mobile can be, but how essential.

Posted by Tanya Keen, News Support Team How do you keep thousands of Google News publishers informed about getting their content included in Google News? In September 2006 we launched our first version of a Help Center for Publishers. Since then, Google webmaster tools expanded their offerings to enable news publishers who are already included in Google News to submit a News Sitemap.

Posted by Jaya Jha, Associate Product Manager I was pretty excited when I found out that one of my first projects here was going to be to launch Google News in Hindi . Over 300 languages are spoken in India, and the chance to build a local product that people I knew would find useful was a pretty thrilling challenge. That one launch taught me a lot of things about how issues and challenges vary according to region, users and languages.

Posted by Lieping Tang, Software Engineer, Google News One of the goals of Google News is to enable readers to read the news in the way that works best for them. In looking at how people use Google News and based on feedback we've received, we've found that many people prefer to read the news in a more visual way. As a result,