"Overall, Fast Flip just seems like a disappointing product. The cooperation with content producers is interesting, though we wonder if a single AdSense unit on the site will really make newspapers any money. Google Reader or personalized applications like my6sense on the iPhone or feedly on the desktop just seem far more interesting and usable than browsing through a series of screenshots."

"...why is it that all the old newspaper guys think there's some giant pile of money at the top of the trust pyramid? There isn't. All the money is at the bottom. In the muck. In the details."

"Google Web Elements allow you to easily add your favorite Google products onto your own website."

"Last week, we introduced a new "Timeline of articles" feature that provides a chronological view of the chain of events that make up a story. To view the timeline for a story, click the "all news articles" link under any cluster of articles on Google News."

..smart move.. publishers will quit their whining as soon as they realize that google will make more money for them out of their content as they could do it alone.. it's already happening with copyright protected videos being published on youtube.. "piracy" sounds rather ridicolous from this perspective: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/youtube_pirate_business.php

"Shares of UAL briefly plummeted as low as $3 early in the day -- from $12.30 on Friday -- after a 6-year-old story on the company's 2002 bankruptcy filing resurfaced on the Web and was reported as news by an investment letter."

"Today, we're launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives. (...) Not only will you be able to search these newspapers, you'll also be able to browse through them exactly as they were printed -- photographs, headlines, articles, advertisements and all."

"Ich habe auch meine masochistischen Momente. Dann gebe ich bei Google News meinen Namen ein und lese, wer sich wieder über mich ausgekotzt hat. "

...quite interesting - the Google News timeline sorts archived news due to dates mentioned in the articles, not due to publication date.

"...provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods."

"..we're releasing a new feature to find your local news by simply typing in a city name or zip code. While we’re not the first news site to aggregate local news, we’re doing it a bit differently."

"The editor of Timesonline (...) Anne Spackman told delegates that Google was the number one topic of conversation at News Corp."

"With just a few clicks, anyone can configure and add a sleek looking Google NewsBar to their site. (...) The NewsBar is perfect for your topical sites or blogs."

Über den AP/AFP-Deal mit Google: "I keep saying that the industry is not assessing the real threat of Google: It’s advertising. Google is taking over the market for targeted — and next, local — advertising and we are letting them."

"Google News will start hosting full versions of AP stories instead of linking off to them. And second, Google will begin to filter out duplicates of the same AP story. So you won’t see multiple versions of an AP story from various newspapers..."

One of our engineers was recently traveling through Africa when he ran into a loyal Google News user. When the Googler asked the local if he knew that Google News was available on mobile, the local guy replied: "Of course -- how else would you get to it?"