Old news worth repeating: "[W]hile news organizations continue to worry about what Google is doing to their business, the company is far from achieving the kind of dominant position in news that it has in other areas."

Germany’s Handelsblatt says the combination of Google Earth and Google News means the search giant is now in a position to move onto local papers’ advertising turf through geocoded news. Of course this isn’t really Google’s first step into local, but that

Germany’s Handelsblatt says the combination of Google Earth and Google News means the search giant is now in a position to move onto local papers’ advertising turf through geocoded news. Of course this isn’t really Google’s first step into local, but that

"Can you imagine a content economy five or ten years from now that supports 2,000 versions of the same story? Is it any surprise that the company that creates far and away the most economic value on the web produces NO ORIGINAL CONTENT?"

Google News is now available to iPhone and iPod Touch users in over 30 countries.

Some useful advice on how to make news websites more search-friendly.

Google News now searches for quotations within your copy. "To access these new features, first search for a person’s name on Google News. If we have a recent quote, we’ll show it above the search results."

Google News’ Josh Cohen explains how Google works effectively with publishers who have pay walls,like the The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times.

How to (ab?)use the Wall Street Journal’s first-click-free approach to Google News and Digg to get free access to the bits behind the paywall …

Here’s a conversation I’d like to eavesdrop on. Google News engineers over lunch: "After getting our food, we sit, eat, and chat about the future of online journalism and how we can make Google News better."

"Stuart Pinfold … has put together a google map that shows the locations of the BBC’s global correspondents, stringers and bureaux."

Chganges to the search engine should benefit news organisations that break stories or update them — or local news organsiations covering events in their area.

Despite what the headline says, this is actually a significant case about Google’s use of thumbnails in images, an issue that has also lead to legal disputes with publishers in Europe. "The justices ruled that a larger public interest in searching for in