Not a single month goes without Google mobilising another of their web services, by releasing a light version adapted to the smaller screens and slower connections of mobile phones and handheld computers. Now it's the turn of the Google News news aggregator.

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The mobile version of Google, the popular Internet portal (calling it just a search engine falls quite short) has just added a new option to its home page for mobile devices: now it's the mobile access to Google News, the service that gathers continuously the stories from major news outlets in each country (that's 4.500 news sources in the US, 700 in Spain and Germany, 500 in France) and displays their headlines on a home page, grouped by sections.

The new access to Mobile Google News is located just under the search options and just above the mobile version of the Gmail webmail. The home page of the new service displays the three main headlines, followed by the sections menu (US, World, Entertainment, Sport, Sci/Tech, Business and Health), with an option to expand each section to display their first three headlines too.

The best part is that, unlike other mobile news aggregators, the links in Mobile Google News don't take the user to the regular web pages of the news sources, but directly to their mobile versions, which further streamlines 'light' browsing using a small screen and a slow connection.

Google News' new mobile version is available only for U.S. news sources, but not yet for localized versions such as Google Noticias, that aggregates Spanish media. Therefore, any user who has configured his/her mobile access to Google in another language must switch it back to English. Hopefully this limitation will be solved soon...