Product or service · Media and entertainment

Google News, the front page built by an algorithm (2002)

Google News gathered stories from many outlets on the same subject and built the page automatically. In September 2010 the product's blog, signed by founder Krishna Bharat, celebrated the service's eighth birthday, which places its debut in 2002.

September 2002

Google News

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sources · timeline 2000–2004

Interpretive reconstruction · Classic serif Early-2000s conventions: white background, small sans-serif text, dense blue links. Does not reproduce any Google page.

Dates

September 2002 Launch · approximate date [1]

What the sources say

Claim	Record	Confidence	Sources
Founder	Krishna Bharat	2 · Single primary source	[1] primary
Launch year	2002, inferred from the eighth birthday celebrated in September 2010 Interpretation	3 · Secondary source	[1] primary

What the confidence levels mean

Names

Google News — official name
Google Notícias — localized name (Brazilian Portuguese)

Historical captures

No archived capture has been located for this record yet.

Sources

Google News turns eight — Krishna Bharat and Chris Beckmann — Google News Blog, September 22, 2010. Source primary · accessed November 2, 2026 · look for a copy on the Internet Archive
Only the title, date and byline were read by the museum.

What still needs documenting

Exact launch date and number of sources at launch
Date it left beta
Launch of the Brazilian edition

On GD

GD has followed Google since 2006. Search GD for “Google News” (in Portuguese)

How to cite

"Google News, the front page built by an algorithm (2002)", Google Museum (GD), https://gd.eurisko.com.br/museu/en/collection/google-news/, CC BY 4.0. Reviewed on November 2, 2026.

ID: google-news · Reviewed on November 2, 2026