Gary North

Feb. 27, 2010

I use Google News. It gives me a quick overview of the kinds of news stories that interest me. That's because Google News lets me create a page of news topics that interest me. It has this feature: "Add a section."

When you click on this link, you are taken to dozens of pages. Each page has about ten topics.

It will take you at least half an hour to click through pages of links. You will run out of time before you run out of topics.

If you find a topic that may interest you, you can click a link to get a page full of today's articles. You can see if these stories would interest you. If you like what you see, click "Add this section."

Once added, the topical link appears on the left-hand side of your Google News home page.

At this point, you use "Edit this page" to decide how many stories you want for each category. It really is like having a newspaper edited for you.