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"Another cool new feature from Google today: the ability to create a Google News slideshow that you can embed on your own website.  The company has launched the NewsShow wizard that lets you pick a search expression (\u201Csocial media\u201D in the example below), a search topic (like \u201Ctechnology\u201D), and specify a few design options.\n\n\n\n\nFrom there, the Google NewsShow is just copy and paste iframe code.  The NewsShow documentation details all of the attributes that you can tweak if you have some familiarity with JavaScript.  While I love the concept of leveraging the Google News algorithms to build your own aggregator, the execution falls a bit short, at least in this initial release.\nThe primary issue is with the display itself \u2013 the slideshow format gives NewsShow the mundane look and feel of a slideshow widget.  What I\u2019d rather have is simply a customizable number of headlines about a given topic, in a size that I can specify (currently, the only options are 728x90 and 300x250, two popular banner ad sizes), that displays as static links.  Perhaps some custom color attributes too for backgrounds, headlines, and story descriptions that match the look and feel of my site.  \n\n\n\n\nWith that, I could then build my own aggregator that functioned much in the same as Google News, but about very specific topics that me and my readers cared about.  Of course, if Google were to hand over this much control to developers, they\u2019d potentially be risking page views to Google News as people built more niche aggregators.  On the other hand, I bet at least a few media companies would be willing to pay for that type of access to the Google News algorithms.\nThere are plenty of widgets out there for displaying news headlines on your website.  Google has an opportunity to shine with a News API that lets developers do really interesting things, but we\u2019ll see if they go in this route or simply remain yet another widget. \nAdditional Resources from Mashable\n\n- NEWS TOOLBOX: 30+ News Related Sites\n- 40 Free Apps to Read Breaking News on Your iPhone\n- The 30 Most Salacious Sites For Celebrity Gossip\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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