The English language portion of Google News is finally out of beta. However, it still claims the same number of sources, 4500, that it’s had almost since it began in beta. The non-English Google News, which has expanded to 34 countries/languages, still has the beta moniker. The source counts are by language, so regardless of whether you pick Google News for France or French-speaking Canada, the source count is identical (500). German, whether for Germany or the German-speaking part of Switzerland, clocks in at 700 sources. Spanish, which now includes Spain, Spanish in the U.S., Chile, Venezuela, and even Cuba, has 700 sources as well. There are 200 in Portuguese and 250 in Italian. I found 1000 in Chinese, but I can’t read the numbers for either Japanese or Korean. What differs in the news presented is the national component. Although the Spanish language sources, for example, may show almost the same stories for International, the national news will be in Spanish but cover news from the country selected.

What’s missing that surprises me? All the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) and anything in Africaans from South Africa.