Posts Tagged News Near You
Google goes local with mobile location-based news
Posted by Dominic Tyer in Media, Mobile phones on May 16, 2011
The regular requests for my location have so far been the most annoying feature of Google’s otherwise useful iPhone app.
Now this hitherto unexplained – and constant – request starts to make (a little) sense as Google pushes into local, location-based news for mobiles.
News Near You is a new feature on Google’s mobile app that analyses both the content of a story and the location of the source to find news about particular cities and their surrounding area. Read the rest of this entry »
