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Google News is an automated News Aggregator provided by Google Inc. The Google News website was introduced as a Beta Release in April 2002 . The service came out of beta on 23 January 2006. There are different versions of the aggregator for more than 20 languages, with more added all the time. To quell any charges of reporting bias, the service is fully automated with no human editors. However, the sources included are determined by human review, and their selection has come up for criticism. In March 2005 attention was called to Google's inclusion of the White Supremacist National Vanguard magazine, and the resulting controversy forced Google to remove that site from the service. In another case, Google was criticized for not including sources which are censored in China. In the official Google Blog on 9/27/2004 , the Google Team wrote: "For users inside the People's Republic of China, we have chosen not to include sources that are inaccessible from within that country." The service covers the news articles that appeared within the past 30 days on news websites in the language concerned, from various countries; for the English Language it covers about 4,500 sites, for other languages less. It provides around the first 200 characters and links to the full article. Some of these websites require a subscription; in that case this is noted in the Google News summary of their articles. In order, though Google counters that it has opt-out procedures which AFP could have followed but did not. Google has since ceased aggregating AFP's stories. Google News quietly left its beta phase in January 2006. FEATURES AND CUSTOMIZATION Google News provides searching, and the choice of sorting the results by date and time of publishing (not to be confused with date and time of the news' happening) or grouping them (and also grouping without searching). In the English versions, there are options to tailor the grouping to a selected national audience. Users can request E-mail "alerts" on various keyword topics by subscribing to Google News Alerts . E-mails are sent to subscribers whenever news articles matching their requests come online. Alerts are also available via RSS and Atom feeds. Users can customize the displayed sections, their location on the page, and how many stories are visible with a JavaScript -based Drag And Drop interface. Stories from different editions of Google News can be combined to form one personalized page, with the options stored in a Cookie . The service has been integrated with Google Search History since November 2005. Upon it's graduation from beta, a section was added that displays recommended news based on the user's Google News search history and the articles the user has clicked on (if the user has signed up for Search History). SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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