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Google News goes local
All you have to do is visit the Google News homepage, scroll down the page a bit until you see a box asking for a city, state, or zip code. Fill in the box, and Google will add a local section to the page. You can also click the hyperlink to get a standalone page. For example, this link takes you to a Google News for Chicago.
There's no real local search tool yet. If you enter a search term from a local news page, you still get global search results.
[via Google Blogoscoped]
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sarmaddsiidqui said 4:34PM on 2-07-2008
this is really cool. I was hoping they would add something like this. Until now i had a search link for my city, but the problem was that other cities with the same name would also show up. This fixes that.
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michael said 8:21PM on 2-07-2008
Or, if you actually care that much about local news, you could just always go to your local newspaper site and read up from there.
I think your local news site could use more page views (for ad views) than instantly resorting to Google to do the job.
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