Google adds punch to News search

BANGALORE: Google has introduced a new feature in its news service, Google News, called the Advanced News Search, allows visitors to search headlines by date, location, exact phrases or publication. Google news displays news from over 4500 news sources around the web.

With the advanced new search, you can search for headlines by exact phrase, publication or region. The Nielsen-NetRatings estimate that 2.5 million unique visitors visit the Google News site. It now faces competition from NewsNow and AltaVista. AltaVista, allows visitors to search by region, time frame and publication. NewsNow has 10,000 news sources as against Google’s 4500, but its advanced search is paid.