14-09-2017 19:20 via theverge.com

Google News now displays localized community updates from bloggers

Google announced today that it’s going to start including hyperlocal events in Google News. Pulling from sources like bloggers and high school newspapers, the new feature, called Community Updates, will keep you in the loop on “news and events happening right in your own backyard,” according to Google.
Google has been tweaking its News feature a lot in the past year. In June, Google News got a redesign that reduced clutter and added the Local tab.Now underneath that Local tab,
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