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Google news is a feature that groups or aggregates news stories and feature articles. This service is offered in 12 languages, including Arabic and Hebrew. The articles and features you are likely to see centers around events that have been in the news within the past 30 days and it's a collaboration of news that has been presented on a variety of sites. If you are viewing in English then it covers material from over 4,400 sites.

With Google news you are allowed to search and sort the news by date and time. There is also a news archiving feature that allows searchers to go back approximately 200 years for various news articles and stories.

Even though Google news uses over 4500 sites as new sources there are less than 30 that they utilize as a major source of their content, which include Forbes, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Houston Chronicle, Monsters and Critics.com, Guardian Unlimited, Voice Of America, Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune, and Bloomberg L.P.

This features helps Google with one of it's goals of supplying users with a variety of new sources to chose from and access. The service as stated by Google, is completely automated therefore no person edit's the material.

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