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title: Google news still in beta
date: "2002-03-25T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1386
description: I evaluated the beta version of Google News and found it currently unimpressive, though I predict it will follow Google’s typical trajectory to become a de facto search standard for news content.
keywords: [google news, beta testing, search engines, news aggregation, google history]
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[news.google.com](http://news.google.com). Still in Beta, and a little unimpressive, but as with most things at Google, likely to become a de facto search engine.