Users of Google News can now find links to Coastal Review Online content in their personalized news feeds.
Coastal Review Online, or CRO, is a daily, nonprofit news and feature service covering the N.C. coast. It is produced by the N.C. Coastal Federation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit group dedicated to protecting and preserving the N.C. coast.
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Google News is a computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines from news sources worldwide, groups similar stories together and displays them according to each reader’s personalized interests.
Google News offers links to several articles on each area of news interest, allowing users to first decide on subject interests and then select which publishers’ accounts of each story they’d like to read. According to the search engine service’s “About” page, its articles are selected and ranked by computers that evaluate, among other things, how often and on what sites a story appears online.
“We also rank based on certain characteristics of news content such as freshness, location, relevance and diversity. As a result, stories are sorted without regard to political viewpoint or ideology and you can choose from a wide variety of perspectives on any given story,” according to Google News.
Users may personalize their news pages to include subject matter that reflects their interests. Users can also sign up to receive weekly, daily or as-it-happens email alerts on any topic. Users can also receive updates of various sections of Google News or Google News search results by subscribing to RSS or Atom feeds in their favorite feed reader.
CRO signed up to submit content to Google News on Monday as part of an effort to reach a wider audience. By Tuesday, CRO headlines had begun appearing in the service’s story lists.
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To help be sure you receive CRO content via Google News, sign in or create a Google account and personalize your interests to add “Coastal North Carolina.” CRO stories may show up under other content headings, depending on the subject matter.
Of course, to get the most from CRO, continue to visit www.coastalreview.org.
