Search engine Google launched a site for searching news from 4,000 English-language sources, Reuters reports. The new service, called Google News, will be accessible on Google's start page and will pull real-time news from different Web sites around the world. News will be arranged under categories such as world, business, entertainment, technology and sports. Google is not employing any editors to work on the service but will arrange the news it gathers with the same basic technology it currently uses to rank search results in order of relevance. The company said it will rank news based on how recently it has been published, the number of articles devoted to a given topic and the popularity of the news source. Google is initially offering the news service for free, but it plans to see what kind of demand the site generates before it considers possible ways to make money from it.
