In the Google official Blog one can read in a post entitled "And now, News" by Krishna Bharat the Creator of Google News:
Google has many services in beta and to take a service out of beta is in itself a big news.
We're taking Google News out of beta! When we launched the English-language edition in September 2002, we entered untested waters with a grand experiment in news browsing - using computers to organize the world's news in real time and providing a bird's eye view of what's being reported on virtually any topic.
Google has many services in beta and to take a service out of beta is in itself a big news.