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Sure, Google’s main gig is the super search engine we all know and love (and its main source of revenue is selling ads on all those search results pages), but Google has also become one of the primary online resources for newshounds worldwide. Not that you have to search the Google index for old news stories (although you can, if you want to); no, Google does all the hard work for you with its Google News service.

Google News is a news-gathering service that identifies, assembles, and displays the latest news headlines from more than 4,500 different news organizations. It also offers a comprehensive news archive search, with more than 200 years’ worth of historical newspaper articles available. So, whether you want the latest news or the oldest news, Google has it.