Get Your Headlines, Googled

Google delivers the news so much better than the TV or a single newspaper, but it's tough to select stories from such a bounty of links. Type a subject and you can get links to 400 reports, but 200 of them could be the same AP story in newspapers from around the world.

There's a better way to get Google News. An enterprising Japanese programmer has created a spiffy interface for the service, one that shows story headlines in sizes proportionate to their popularity. Color-coded, too. You can see what the online crowd is reading, even if it might not be the best story on the subject. It's just another way to tap into the resource that drives that $255 a share stock. You might cook up your own piggyback venture with some help from Google Hacks. Google, a company that would rather have the press interview its corporate chef than its CEO, doesn't seem to mind.