Posted by Inbal Drukker, News Support Team The Google News Support team works with news publishers and with people who use Google News. We're proud to be the group that can address your concerns and questions, and help get your feedback implemented into the product. We're constantly working to improve how we support you, which is why I'm excited to announce our new Help Center . We've made many changes to it,

Posted by Lucy Zhang, Software Engineer As one of the first engineers assigned to Google News, I'm excited to kick off the inaugural Day in the Life )"DITL"( post. Over the next few months, we hope to bring you a unique window into the world of Google News by publishing more DITL posts from other people who work on News. Our team is diverse and passionate, and we hope that we can show that to you in this series of posts. I've worked on Google News for over three years,

Posted by Josh Cohen, Business Product Manager If you somehow escaped US electioneering up to this point, you probably won't today, Super Tuesday, when 24 states choose their candidates for the fall election. This will be the largest number of primaries going on at one time in the history of the U.S. electoral system. Over the last few weeks and months, there has been a massive volume of news coverage, statistics and polls - and there will be even more today.

Posted by Andy Golding, Software Engineer Often publishers ask us why Google News didn't include one of their articles, or skipped the image associated with an article. In the search for answers, we've noticed that there's a lot of confusion about how we include and rank articles. We'd like to share some of the facts, and debunk the myths. We've enumerated some of truths and myths below,

Posted by Marián Dvorský, Software Engineer The Czech edition of News was my first 20% project here at Google. Therefore I'm very excited to see it now live at news.google.cz . Zprávy Google )as Google News is called in Czech( aggregates stories from hundreds of news sources in the Czech language. Stories are presented in sections similar to those in other editions.

Posted by Mark Lucovsky, Software Engineer If you are a web site owner, a blogger, or a professional site designer, take a look at the latest creation from the AJAX Search API team. With just a few clicks, anyone can configure and add a sleek looking Google NewsBar to their site. "NewsBar" frameborder="0"> " target="new">Try it out. The NewsBar is designed with your needs in mind.

Posted by Kevin Liu, Jin-Ho Kim, Jaeho Kang, Software Engineers Lots of people love small, portable, sexy gadgets, and that's exactly what we've just created. We're not talking hardware, of course - what we're introducing is the iGoogle News gadget . The iGoogle News gadget shows your favorite Google News in a small-screen format, complete with news headlines, snippets, and thumbnails, grouped by news clusters. If you're really into a particular story,

Posted by Greta Ghizzo Van Everen, News Support Team A few weeks ago we blogged about how Google News personalization works . Now let's take a look at getting the most out of Google News feeds. For one thing, you can get articles from your favorite news source directly on your iGoogle page. Here's what you need to do: perform a Google News search using our site: operator . In the results page click on the link "RSS" or "Atom" located on the lefthand side of your screen.

Posted by Gina Bonzani, News Support Team I "grew up" in Google supporting News and communicating directly with publishers and readers. One thought I've seen over and over is that people want to be able to see the news that interests them the most. And a great way to do that is to personalize your Google News homepage.

Posted by Dan Meredith and Andy Golding, Software Engineers, News Team We wanted to give you a heads-up on a new, experimental feature we'll be trying out on the Google News home page. Starting this week, we'll be displaying reader comments on stories in Google News, but with a bit of a twist... We'll be trying out a mechanism for publishing comments from a special subset of readers: those people or organizations who were actual participants in the story in question.

Posted by Frances Lewis, News Support Team Got a question about Google News, or are you curious about how to start personalizing your News page to get the stories you care most about? It doesn't matter if you're an avid user or a life-long publisher - we have the place for you. The Google News Discussion Group takes questions of all shapes and sizes. With so many readers out there, it only makes sense to have a home for helping one another use Google News better.