Late on Friday Google announced the launch of ‘News near you’ for Google News on mobile, offering location-based news in its US English edition.
Location-based news first became available in Google News in 2008, and today there’s a local section for just about any city, state or country in the world with coverage from thousands of sources. We do local news a bit differently, analyzing every word in every story to understand what location the news is about and where the source is located.