Google: How To Leverage the Power of Internet Searching

About Google News

Google News is an incredible aggregator, bringing new articles from around the globe to one location where you can access news customized to your preferences.

Why use Google News?

Google News is a "computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines from more than 4,500 English-language" news agencies. You can personalize your Google News page to get a more detailed or a wider perspective of world events. Google News retrieves stories through a computer algorithm evaluating online story frequency.

Google News has a set of newspapers that have been archived. These are papers that have been scanned in so that you can actually do searches across them.  You will see when a paper has been active and when the scans are available.  It is a great way  to get into the topic in your area and start to understand what’s going on historically and what was considered to be important news during a point in time.  

Using news filtering and time filtering you can see the original uses of words or phrases and start to understand how things start to link together and how ideas change over time. 

You can:

• easily search historical news articles in major newspapers and magazines, and legal archives
• see how people and events have been described over time using the timeline feature
• see content available to all users from some of the world's largest news sources - BBC, Time Magazine, Globe and Mail, Washington Post
• search top stories worldwide in business, technology, sports, health, entertainment, and much more
• set up alerts
• access a mobile friendly versions of Google News on your cell
• set up RSS feeds
• and personalize it

Read more about Google News

There are many search strategies and tips to use when searching Google News. See Advanced News Search for help.

Search for Canadian Newspapers

Google News [provides lists of all newspapers scanned and available in the Google News Archives.  For a list of newspapers in Google News Archive (with links) look here.

Use Google News Advanced Search to help narrow your results to the region or dates you require.

For older articles, be sure to change the "Return articles added to Google News between" date to something that works for your search, i.e. 1/1/1901).

Google News Search Alerts

If you want to limit your Google alerts to news stories only. 

1. Go to Google News.
2. Do a search for your topic.
3. Scroll to the bottom of your search results page.
4. Click on "Create an email alert for "your topic" (if you prefer RSS feed, scroll to the very bottom of the page and click the RSS icon for the feed URL).
5. Select the desired options on the form.
6. Enter your email address, and click "Create alert".
7. Google will periodically email you newly published papers that match your search criteria.

Google News RSS Feed

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