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 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 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.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Josh Cohen, Business Product Manager Today we're launching a new feature on Google News that will help you quickly and easily find original stories from news publishers - including stories from some of the top news agencies in the world, such as the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, UK Press Association and the Canadian Press - and go directly to the original source to read more.