Get shown news tailored to your preferences with the Google News app, now available for iPhones and iPads. The new Google News app that was first teased at the company's I/O developer conference last week has just rolled out to iOS; it's also already available for Android and the Web in 127 countries. The world wide web launched nearly 30 years ago, so the amount of content available to searchers is massive; in fact there are over 2 billion websites, not to mention social media posts and video footage. A blog post from the company describes how AI is a way for them to "find the best of human intelligence – the great reporting done by journalists around the globe"; using AI to help searchers sift through the haystack and find the right needle. The Google News app is divided into parts.

There is no editorial team at Google News. There is no building filled with hundreds of moderators monitoring the thousands of stories hitting the web every second, making sure the full story is presented. Instead, Google uses artificial intelligence algorithms, as well as its partnerships with fact-checking organizations providing headlines from credible, authoritative sources. "Humans are generating the content," Trystan Upstill, Google News engineering and product lead, told Digital Trends. "We think of the whole app as a way to use artificial intelligence to bring forward the best in human intelligence. In a way, the A.I. is controlling this fire hose of human stuff going on."