Google is introducing a new, browser-based feature for everyone who reads news using a mobile device. The service is called “News near you” and it’s accessible if you direct your mobile browser to Google’s news page.

Google says it analyzes every word in every story to determine both the story’s location and source, and then files it appropriately and serves it back to you depending on where you are. If you don’t want to share your location, there’s an opt-in message the first time you land on Google News.

Anyone think they’ll be taking advantage of this? I get most of my local news from the evening news, but does anyone see this replacing that for them? Sound off and let us know how accurate the city placement is once you’ve opted-in.

Source: The Google Mobile Blog