Google News

Google News is Google's news aggregation and personalization service.

Alternative coverageavailable
Product skillready for your agent
Company
Google (google)
Product type
media
Categories
news-aggregation
Official site
https://news.google.com/ ↗
Catalog ID
google-news

At a glance

Google News is Google's news aggregation and personalization service.

Catalog categories: news-aggregation.

Catalogued capability areas: - Aggregation across publishers - Personalized feed - Alerts and follow topics

This summary reflects the catalog record, not a complete product specification. Verify intended users, end-to-end workflows, supported platforms, edge cases, data handling, and constraints against cited sources. Treat capability labels as research leads until that verification is complete.

  • Aggregation across publishers
  • Personalized feed
  • Alerts and follow topics

Open-source alternative

2 candidate projects in the landscape. A candidate may cover all, part, or none of what Google News does — read the coverage and gaps below.

FreshRSS

AGPL-3.0

Self-hosted RSS aggregator with a Google Reader-like UI.

Coverage and gaps

Alternative coverage

Available for the core job (following sources): FreshRSS is a mature self-hosted news aggregator. The personalized ranking layer is not replicated.

The gap

RSS covers following sources; Google's editorial ranking and personalization have no equivalent.

Build this product with your agent

This Markdown file is the coding-agent skill for Google News. Give it to your agent in your project; it guides research, reuse decisions, implementation and verification.

Get the Google News build skill

rae google-news --out ./google-news-agent

Generate the skill with the RAE CLI, or download the Markdown skill. The source skill is also available in the catalog.

  • agent-kit.mdDownloadable Markdown skill with product-specific instructions for your coding agent.available
  • skill.mdGenerated copy of the same product skill — rae google-news --out ./google-news-agent.in kit
  • mcp.jsonOptional MCP server config — rae google-news --out ./google-news-agent.in kit
  • Product workspaceOptional starting workspace for your agent — rae build product google-news --out ./google-news.
  1. ChoosePick the product you want to build.
  2. ReviewAsk your agent to check the product skill, evidence and alternatives.
  3. BuildGive the skill to your coding agent and build in your own project.
  4. VerifyRun the checks for your implementation and review the result.

Evidence

Sources

Provenance

Next step

Give the Google News skill to your coding agent in your project. Ask it to evaluate FreshRSS ↗ against your needs, reuse what fits, then follow the skill's build and verification instructions.

Give the product skill to your coding agent in the project where you want to build. Optional starter workspace: rae build product google-news --out ./google-news. CLI reference.