Summary

Google News aggregates news from thousands of sources and presents it to you in a simple-to-read but powerful format. You can find what you need and hundreds of related articles reading Google News just the way it is, or you can personalize it by rearranging the News page, changing the language, or adding custom sections.

Reading the news is not restricted to the Web. You can install programs that accept ATOM and RSS news feeds. In many ways, these programs themselves act as aggregators of news and Usenet and other Web sources of information.

Let the computer tell you when there are important bits of news, group, or Web information that matches your interest by setting up Google Alerts. These will keep you informed without having to read all the Google Groups, Google News, and performing your own Web searches constantly. This way you never miss important information. This can form the foundation of scholarly research. Learn more about using Google for your research work using Google Scholar, which is covered in the next chapter.