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They put it on the frontpage tab, they put it in their tour.
Its definately less Beta than Froogle.
To be real, they should add other languages as well though.
Fast downloading for a service where uses could be expected to do a lot of searches in one sitting and to and froing, that fast download is magic for me.
Thre was a thread about this before. I agree with those that say that they may be waiting to find a way to get rid of all the syndicated Reuters/AP duplicate stuff. I find the news.google search the best in the business by far for a mainstream search engine.
Remember this one is a major candidate for monetizing. So that maybe one reason for taking a while to come out of beta. It has to be fantastic and way ahead of competitors ( a step above where it is now which is excellent anyway ) for people to consider subscribing to it, even just for "premium" articles.
Its strength is its broad base of sources, providing takes on news that you wont find on other mainstream news services.
Now Froogle, that's a whole nother issue.
