Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Web 2.0 Application

Google News is a very useful tool if a person wants to find out about a news topic from many different perspectives. When the user first searches for a topic, Google News will list publications that offer stories on the same subject (sometimes there are thousands of different stories). If the user has Google account, it allows he or she to customize the front page of Google News, making it easy to access topics that a person is constantly interested in. It can search for publications in different languages and different countries as well.

The use of Google Alerts is also helpful is the user wants to keep up with the latest news on a subject. A person can tell Google to search for something many times a day and send updates to an e-mail address provided by the user.

One of the most useful features of Google News is the "Advanced News Search." This allows the user to narrow a search to a certain publication, region, time period etc. This is extremely helpful if a person is interested in looking for different perspectives on the same issue.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good words.