MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (AP) -- Online search engine Google has added another drawing card to its popular Web site by introducing a tool designed to make it easier to find specific news stories.
The new feature, available by clicking on an "advanced search" link in Google's news section, enables users to limit news searches to particular publications and dates. The tool also narrows searches to stories containing an exact phrase.
California-based Google considers the advanced search feature, announced Monday, to be the most visible change to its news section since introducing the service last year. Google's online newsstand covers 4,500 English language sources, up from about 4,000 sources 10 months ago.
By building more attractions around its main search engine, Google has been luring even more traffic to its Web site and intensifying the competition with other Internet power brokers, including Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN.
The new feature, available by clicking on an "advanced search" link in Google's news section, enables users to limit news searches to particular publications and dates. The tool also narrows searches to stories containing an exact phrase.
California-based Google considers the advanced search feature, announced Monday, to be the most visible change to its news section since introducing the service last year. Google's online newsstand covers 4,500 English language sources, up from about 4,000 sources 10 months ago.
By building more attractions around its main search engine, Google has been luring even more traffic to its Web site and intensifying the competition with other Internet power brokers, including Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN.
