Google News Tabbed, Updated, & Expanded

The Google News has greatly expanded its number of news sources (to "approximately 4,000") and the depth of its archive. It also has a newly redesigned look and has finally added the News Tab on the main page and on search results pages. According to the About page "Google News continuously crawls more than 4,000 news sources from around the world. This number will continue to grow as we develop the service further" and it now "includes articles that appeared within the past 30 days." There is still no advanced search, although Tara points out that adding &num=100 to the end of a results URL will give 100 results at a time. Even easier, just change your regular Google preferences to default to 100, and you don't even need to add the special code.

I can't say I'm impressed with the "Google News is highly unusual in that it offers a news service compiled solely by computer algorithms without human intervention" boast or the lack of a list of those 4,000 sources. However, the results are certainly much broader than what was offered before.