A New Way to Search for News
The folks over at WebWorkerDaily never miss a beat. They find all the quirky web applications and generally announce them before they are released to the public. Occasionally, they come back to something one of the big companies like Microsoft, Apple, or Google produce. This week, they published an article on Google News Timeline.
Google News Timeline. This new service straight out of Google Labs seems to be a pretty useful one for people that write blogs. We all have our ways of staying current and getting to the news stories and articles we want quickly. The timeline service allows you to see all of your search results on a chart organized by date. It defaults to show you a daily view, but you can set it to weekly, monthly, yearly, or by the decade.
This seems to fall in line with Seth Godin’s thinking that, by the year 2012, people won’t get there news by reading it from a paper. The easier it becomes to view news stories that interest you online, the less need you have to purchase the paper copy. Hopefully, the news organizations will figure out a way to make enough money to actually report the news by then!
I imagine this will be useful not just for bloggers and online writers, but also for actual news reporters. In addition, I see the value for researchers from grade school to terminal degree research papers, as all the news stories published in an online version going back for decasades can be seen in an organized fashion with the click of a button.
As usual, Google is changing the way we do just about everything online.
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