Google News - Daily Headlines

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About this app

Google News is a personalised news aggregator that organises and highlights what’s happening in the world so that you can discover more about the stories that matter to you.


Stay up to date on your interests

• The For You tab delivers the top stories across all your favourite topics and sources in one place. You no longer need to search through various news sources across mobile and web. Examine in-depth science, entertainment, fashion, sports, cricket updates, finance or whatever else you care about.

One story. Numerous perspectives.

• With Full coverage you can be informed on how a story is reported from a variety of sources. With just a tap you’ll see recent headlines from different sources, videos, local news reports, FAQs, news analysis, social commentary and a timeline of events for stories that developed over time.

Breaking news

• The Headlines tab offers an unfiltered view of top and breaking news articles from around the world and India. Additional sections let you dig into more on tech news, business news, travel news, national and international news, health and more.

Discover new sources and topics

• The Newsstand tab makes it easy to find and follow the sources that you trust, as well as browse and discover new ones.

Access your favourite news and magazine subscriptions, together

• If you want to support your favourite news publisher, we’ve made it simple to subscribe with your Google Account. This means no more forms, credit card numbers or new passwords. Easily access them all within the same app.

A smart news app built for every phone, everywhere

• Google News is designed to meet the needs of users with different phones and levels of connection.

• When your connection isn’t strong or you need to save data, Google News will continue to work smoothly by slimming down the size of images and downloading less data.

• Articles can be downloaded over Wi-Fi to save for reading later when you are offline.

Ratings and reviews

Unlike the older version, I could no longer login to my current Washington Post subscription due to bugs, so I couldn't read more than a few stories a month in my subscribed newspaper. It also wouldn't remember that I was logged in to my local paper subscription, so I had to login again any time I saw a headline that I wanted to check out. When I contacted customer service (about the first issue, which seemed most pressing), I received no reply. Another annoyance is that the only available widget is the large one. The old version had a smaller widget that didn't include large pictures, and it fit my screen better. It would be nice if they had kept that as an option.

Incredibly buggy. Feels like it's still in alpha, not even beta yet. Google's "simplified view" for web pages is NOT user friendly -- it forces a small font that's difficult to read, and when you zoom, you can't drag, so you have to zoom out and back till you can focus on what you actually want to see. Most embedded videos don't even work -- however the ads do :-\ . This app is not ready for prime time.

Really poor upgrade from the old News and Weather app. Can no longer customize the Headlines section, you are forced to depends Google's "For You" algorithm. No settings are transferred from the old app, including subscription information. You'll have to fill that out again, and it didn't even work for me when I did. Weather takes a click to see now. All in all a remarkably lazy effort. Will be using News as long as I can.