Google launched "Google News Lab", a site that supports journalist activities, and started to explain and provide various tools

Google organizes information around the world and makes various services as its mission (mission) to make it available to anyone available and easy to use, but new media organizations and journalists Site introducing and providing various services and software of Google for the purpose of obtaining information on the world "Google News Lab"Has been released. On the site, among the existing Google applications and services, those useful for journalism are divided into four sections, "Research" "Report" "Distribute" "Optimize".

Google News Lab
https://newslab.withgoogle.com/

Official Google Blog: Introducing the News Lab
http://googleblog.blogspot.ie/2015/06/introducing-news-lab.html

◆ Research (Search)
· Google search
By entering "site: domain name" after the search word, you can search only within a specific site.


By specifying an extension with "filetype: extension" after the search word, you can search only files of a specific format.


You can add search words and unnecessary words by adding "+" or "-" after the search word.


Furthermore, it is also possible to combine these search methods in plural.


Also, right click on the picture saved in the PC and click on "Search Google for this image" ......


You can find out on which site the photos are used by Google image search.


· Google Public Data Explorer
Google Public Data ExplorerWorld BankYaIMF(International Monetary Fund),EurostatBased on high quality data from such as, etc., it provides all the statistics such as the natural environment of the world and economy, labor, health, education, poverty and so on, observe changes in data at any time, measure trends and numerical values It is possible to do comparison etc.


· Google Consumer Surveys
Google Consumer Surveys of market research service can make questionnaire to know market voices. First, choose the age, gender, residential area and language you want to investigate ......


It is possible to set up questions using 14 kinds of question formats and put up to 10 questions.


The results of the questionnaire can be confirmed by graphs and numerical values.


Samples that actually use questionnaire results on the site are as follows.


· Google Alert
The Google alert that reports newly-arrived content on the web only saves the search word and notifies us by e-mail when new arrival information is released.


You can receive your favorite information by setting the frequency of notice of new arrival information, the time to send notification, the source source of information, language, and so on.


· Google News archive
When searching for incidents or incidents in Google News, new results will be displayed in the top results in search results. However, if you designate the period as "Archive" from the "Search Tools" menu, you can display search results for the whole period, so that older, more important news will come out higher than the new one .


Google stores news on the web since 2003 and as for old old news articles are scanned and saved, so you can search past news.


· Google Translate
With applications distributed for both iOS and Android OS you can cross language barriers anywhere and anywhere in the world.


"Conversation mode" which translates conversation in real time just by talking with the microphone icon corresponds to 30 languages ​​and if you set two kinds of languages, you can tell the language of the application just by talking to the application It automatically determines whether it is being spoken in and translates it into the other language.


Also, even if you can not read signs in town ......


It is safe because it translates by just reading the signboard with the camera.


◆ Report
· Google Maps
Using Google Maps, you can "Draw lines and arrows on the map" "Import data from Google spreadsheets and Excel" "Display original icons on map" "From 9 different styles including aerial photographs and topographic maps You can perform operations such as "Choose a map" "Share the created map with acquaintances."


For example, you can create a map "20 cities perfect for cycling" such as:


· YouTube
To search for a video that suits your purpose, you can filter your videos with upload date, length, image quality etc after entering search word on YouTube.


When you want to use movies for news etc., there is a means to directly contact the contributors of the videos by looking at the overview section of the movie.


· Google Earth Pro
Google Earth Pro adds functions such as "advanced measurement" and "high resolution printing" in addition to the conventional Google Earth functions, and also includes an HD movie that moves the 3D map by using the "movie maker" function It is possible to create.


Google Earth Pro is free in January 2015, and anyone can use it freely. In order to use it, you need to acquire "Earth Pro license" from the following page.

Obtain Earth Pro license - Earth Help


· Google Media Tools Alerts
When large-scale incidents around the world happen, Google News Lab collects information and provides it to journalists with map information on Google Maps. For example, it displays colors on the maps of natural disasters such as typhoons and displays them on Google Maps ......


You can watch the venues of major events around the world in Google Earth, such as the Football World Cup. To receive notifications, you need to register the event you want to be notified by visiting the Google Media Tools Alerts page.


· Google Permissions
Google Permissions is the page that summarizes the terms and conditions for using Google services correctly. Details about how to use the Google logo and images, maps and graphic data on Google services.


◆ Distribute (distribution)
· Google Play Newsstand
Millions of people are reading news and magazines on Google Play Newsstand and journalists can deliver content in optimized layout to each user's terminal. To distribute news on Google Play Newsstand you can register it from the Newsstand Producer page.


You can also check pageviews on Google Play Newsstand with Google Analytics, or deliver ads on content.


· Google News
Google News extracts news in line with topics from more than 65,000 news sites and blogs and anyone can comply with Google News Publisher guidelines and deliver news on Google News.


· YouTube
It is recommended to set movie titles, thumbnails, descriptions, tags and make videos that are easy for people to reach. Especially movie thumbnails are easier to stay at the top, so it's good to upload a custom image that has a big and clear subject.


Also, in order for people who saw the movie to watch another movie, embed a link to another movie in the movie ......


It seems that it is effective to create a playlist that gathers similar types of videos.


If you turn on "Monetization" in YouTube settings ... ...


It is possible to display advertisements on videos and receive revenue according to display time.


Live distribution of videos on YouTube is also possible.


The live distribution setting screen looks like the following, you can set delivery time, live description, tags. Also, as with movies, you can choose from public, unlisted publication, or private disclosure.


◆ Optimize (Optimization)
· YouTube
The most important thing when delivering videos and news on YouTube is "make it real". It seems that the contributors who convey the truth are constantly at the top of the video ranking and gaining trust from viewers.


The second most important thing is to collaborate with other users and increase followers. To that end, it is necessary to look at the videos that other users have posted, and to judge whether the quality and contents match with your videos.


Also, it is important to advertise videos with SNS, have viewers introduce videos, "nurture the social nature of movies".


After posting the video, YouTube Analytics is able to check the playback status etc ..