Google News is a free news aggregator provided and operated by Google Inc, selecting most up-to-date information from thousands of publications by an automatic aggregation algorithm.

Launched in September 2002, the service was tagged as a beta test for over three years until January 2006. The initial idea was developed by Krishna Bharat.

Introduced as a beta release in March 2002, the Google News service came out of beta on January 23, 2006. Different versions of the aggregator are available for more than 60 regions in 28 languages (as of March 15, 2012), with continuing development ongoing. Currently, service in the following languages is offered: Arabic, Cantonese, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian and Vietnamese.

The service covers news articles appearing within the past 30 days on various news websites. In total, Google News aggregates content from more than 25,000 publishers. For the English language, it covers about 4,500 sites^{[citation needed]}; for other languages, fewer. Its front page provides roughly the first 200 characters of the article and a link to its larger content. Websites may or may not require a subscription; sites requiring subscription are noted in the article description.

Sundar Pichai (born 1972) is an Indian American computer engineer. He is currently the senior vice president of Chrome at Google Inc.. Sundar Pichai received a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and was awarded an Institute Silver Medal. He holds an M.S. from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School, where he was named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar.^{[citation needed]}

Pichai joined Google in 2004 where he leads the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including Google Chrome and Chrome OS, as well as being largely responsible for initially cancelling Google Drive. On November 19, 2009, Pichai gave a demonstration of Chrome OS On May 20, 2010 he open-sourced the new video codec VP8 and introduced the new video format WebM to the public. Many Companies have tried to woo Sundar including Twitter, Inc, but Google reportedly awarded him $50 million to keep him from leaving Google. He has been a Director of Jive Software, since April 2011. Sundar Pichai is married and has a daughter and a son.