12 Facts About Google News

Google News is a news aggregator service developed by Google.

Google News released a beta version in September 2002 and the official app in January 2006.

In 2020, Google News announced they would be spending US$1 billion to work with publishers to create Showcases.

On December 1, 2009, Google News announced changes to their "first click free" program, which has been running since 2008 and allows users to find and read articles behind a paywall.

In June 2017, the desktop version of Google News saw a thorough redesign that according to Google had the goal to "make news more accessible and easier to navigate.

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In 2007, a preliminary injunction and then a Belgian court ruled that Google did not have the right to display the lead paragraph from French-language Belgian news sources when Google aggregated news stories, nor to provide free access to cached copies of the full content, due to both copyright and the sui generis database rights.

In May 2011 the ruling was upheld in appeal after Google News reiterated most legal defences from the first grade plus some new ones, which the Court rejected based on the Infopaq ruling and others.

Newspapers representing more than 90 percent of the market in Brazil opted out of having their links appear in Google News according to reports, resulting in only a "negligible" drop in traffic.

Stories from different editions of Google News can be combined to form one personalized page, with the options stored in a cookie.

On June 6, 2006, Google News expanded, adding a News Archive Search feature, offering users historical archives going back more than 200 years from some of its sources.

An expansion of the service was announced on September 8, 2008, when Google News began to offer indexed content from scanned newspapers.

Google News announced that it would instead focus on "Google News One Pass, a platform that enables publishers to sell content and subscriptions directly from their own sites".