Google’s News Timeline lets you see and organize search results chronologically, i.e. in a timeline that runs from right to left on the screen. It lets your view news items on a browsable, graphical timeline. Its includes data sources such as news, scanned newspapers, magazines, blog posts, sports scores, and information about various types of media, like music albums and movies.
How do I use the Timeline Navigation?
1. Drag horizontally on the timeline to move forward or backward through results.
2. Click the arrows on the navigation bar to scroll through the results.
3. Hold on an arrow to continue to scroll.
4. Click on the timeline to zoom in and refine the date range – double-click to zoom out.
Navigation menus
- The “Show” menu displays the timeline by day, week, month, year or decade.
- The “Size” menu gives you control over the column’s width. You can also change the scale to shrink or enlarge the data on the timeline.
- To go directly to a specific date, enter it into the “Date” field on the control bar.
Entering date ranges
Enter a date into the search box and the timeline will navigate to results for that time period. For example, if you type “1999″ into the date field, the timeline will display “January 1999″ on the left side of the timeline.
Queries and Data Sources
Enter a query in the search box to display results for that query on the timeline. For example, you could search for “News” results for “IBM.” Build the query by adding additional terms and data sources.
Default queries include “Wikipedia Events” and “Time Magazine”.
- Delete queries by clicking the blue delete icon.
- Drag the queries horizontally to change their order.
- Double-click a query to bring it to the top of results.
- Click on a query to disable it. Re-click on it again to display those results again.
- Add more queries in the “Add More Queries” link.
Where does the data come from?
Google News Timeline features search results from:
- News Sources from the past 30 days. Older news results are found in the News Archive Search.
- Magazines and Newspapers – you can find magazines and newspapers through Google News Archive Search and Google Book Search. Front covers are displayed on the timeline, based on their original publication date.
- Blogs – Select ‘blogs’ to view blog post results from the data source menu. Type the name of the blog in the query field.
- Wikipedia Events, Births, and Deaths – Add events, births, and deaths from Wikipedia by selecting “Wikipedia” from the menu bar. Enter the category you’d like displayed on the timeline.
- Media from Freebase – You can get info from about media, such as, music and movies. For example, you can display albums by Bob Dylan or movies featuring Al Pacino.
Link: http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com
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