Posted by Hicham Alaoui, Associate Product Marketing Manager Our friends at the Toolbar team recently launched Google Toolbar 5 for Internet Explorer out of beta in 40 languages. To celebrate this occasion and Toolbar's upcoming eighth birthday , we upgraded our Google News Toolbar gadget: You'll now find tabs with different Google News sections embedded directly into the toolbar, so you can read the news as soon as it breaks, browse top news headlines and images,

Posted by Rohit Ananthakrishna, Software Engineer Over the last few weeks we've presented a number of new language launches for Google News: 9 new editions in Africa , a Turkish edition and a Malayalam language edition in India. We're proud to present the three newest members of the Google News family: editions for Malaysia , Philippines and Pakistan . These are all English language editions. So, what does it mean to launch a new edition of Google News in a country?

Posted by Divon Lan, Product Manager Google News is a truly international project, spanning dozens of countries and over 20 languages. But that still leaves plenty of countries without their own dedicated edition of Google News. Today, we are delighted to announce that we've made great progress in our quest to give Google News an even more global reach, by adding 9 more countries to our repertoire. If you head down to the bottom of any Google News page,

Posted by Josh Cohen, Business Product Manager Aggregators like Google News were today the subject of news â€" this time pertaining to a 2002 story regarding United Airlines. For those of you who are interested in the nuts and bolts of why this was indexed by Google News, here are the details: On Saturday, September 6th at 10:36PM Pacific,

Posted by Vinodh Kumar, Kiran Gunda and Prasanna Meda, Software Engineers வணக்கம். தமிழில் செய்திகள்! )Greetings, News In Tamil!( It's not every day that you get to launch a product in a more than 2,000-year-old language spoken by more than 70 million people. That's why we're excited to tell you that Google News is now available in Tamil . Tamil is one of the most widely-spoken languages in India,

Posted by Håvard Kvålen, Robert Leland and Amund Tveit, Software Engineers As we sat in our offices in Trondheim staring off at the fjord - we're Norwegians, that's what we do - a thought occurred to us: wouldn't it be nice to make Google News accessible to readers on their iPod Touch or iPhone? The rest, as they say, is history. Today, we're happy to announce that Google News is now available to iPhone and iPod Touch users in over 30 countries.