How to Find News Stories on Google

If you want to know about a very popular newsworthy event, it’s not hard to find on the Internet. There are an abundance of new websites and news information all over the net. However, you might want be looking for something specific, local, or otherwise little known or covered. Google is a great resource for getting all the top news, plus find that hard to get news information.

From Google’s home page, click on the News category at the top of the page. You will be redirected to Google News—a search engine solely for news stories of all kinds, lengths, and sources. You’ll see a search bar at the top of the page where you can enter the keywords of exactly what you are looking for. Or, you can browse for news stories from the list of categories on the left sidebar:

Top Stories—for the biggest news stories of the day
World—for global news stories
U.S.—for top news stories of the country
Business—for commerce, trading, and company news
Sci/Tech—for new stories, experiments, and developments in the science and technology world
Entertainment—for news about celebrities, movies, and music, and television
Sports—for various sports related news
Health—for new discoveries and developments in health and health care
Spotlight—for unique, interesting, and entertaining stories of all topics
Most Popular—for the hottest news stories across the board.

When clicked, each of these headings will list the top stories from their perspective categories, as well as pictures and other links.

Under these categories are three option on how to view news stories. You can view only headlines, only pictures, or all news.

Top 10 Entertainment News Stories of 2006

The world of entertainment holds great fascination for the young and old alike. It is a magical world with heroes, heroines, and rags to riches stories, romance and more. The year 2006 was full of excitement and of the many eventful happenings the most popular stories followed avidly through all media avenues were:

1. Death of Steve Irwin the crocodile hunter who brought the world close to crocs through his many films and talks. His death by a croc a species he loved and as devoted to shocked the world.

2. Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond was trying to break a land speed record which resulted in a high speed crash. The news of his accident and injuries spread like wild fire.

3. The British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen scored a huge box office hit when he shocked and offended ordinary Americans. He was adjudged as one of the “men of entertainment of 2006.”

4. The guerrilla artist Bansky hit headlines when he dared to replace Paris Hilton CD with his own CD of remixes titled “Why am I famous? And What am I for.”

5. Romance turned sour always interests fans and Sir Paul McCartney’s split with Heather Mills was blockbuster news.

6. The Oscars were swept away by a dark horse a Los Angeles race drama Crash which got a late and unexpected surge of support and overtook hot favorite Brokeback Mountain. The win made headlines and created a buzz.