I don't think this is new. I wrote about it in June (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/06/full-featured-gadgets-for-google.html). It's also one of the default gadgets. |
Ah, thanks. Never trust an official Google blog :)
[Updated the end of the post + I now changed the post's title from "New Google News Gadget" to "Google News Gadget".]
My emphasis in what they wrote:
<<Monday, October 29, 2007 1:46 PM Posted by Kevin Liu, Jin-Ho Kim, Jaeho Kang, Software Engineers
Lots of people love small, portable, sexy gadgets, and that's exactly *what we've just created*. We're not talking hardware, of course – what we're *introducing* is the iGoogle News gadget.>> |
There's also a Google News widget for Blogger blogs, which allows you to choose a keyword, and cycles through a series of relevant headlines.
Google has a funny idea about the definition of "introducing". |
They have also just introduces Google News for facebook: http://apps.facebook.com/googlenews/
Don't know if you have seen? |