NEW YORK (Kyodo) Google News, a computer-generated free news site provided by Google Inc. that aggregates stories worldwide, is expanding its customization options for non-English readers this year, the creator of the news service said recently.

Krishna Bharat, a Google research scientist, said in an interview he expects the site's news personalization and other features to become more widely available for non-English readers sometime this year.

"Everything will come to non-English languages, including Japanese," Bharat said.