# Google News Search via Orthogonal

> Google News Search via Orthogonal is a paid API for AI agents from x402.orthogonal.com, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).

Search Google News and return articles with titles, links, sources, dates, and snippets, with pagination billing support.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.orthogonal.com/serper/news?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-29
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/google-news-search-via-orthogonal-9d2b8f99
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_EkHuavGQG9kurVjYbUaf5

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability google-news-search-via-orthogonal-9d2b8f99 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Google News for articles about OpenAI published in the past week — give me 10 results in English from US sources.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time or recent news articles from Google News with rich metadata (title, source, date, snippet, link), especially when you need country/language filtering, time-range filtering, or cost-efficient multi-page searches via parentRequestId pagination billing. Prefer this over general web search endpoints when the goal is specifically news articles rather than general web pages.

## Known failure modes

- Empty results if query is too niche or no recent coverage exists
- Country or language codes provided in wrong format return no localized results
- Exceeding max num of 100 results per page returns an error
- Invalid tbs time filter string may return unfiltered or empty results
- Changing non-pagination parameters while passing parentRequestId starts a new billable request unexpectedly

## How this service works

Google News search - returns news articles with titles, links, sources, dates, and snippets. Use for current events, press coverage, competitor monitoring, or media research. Pagination billing: call the first page normally and save billing.requestId from the Orthogonal /v1/run response. For later page, offset, or cursor calls on the same logical search, pass parentRequestId with unchanged non-pagination parameters. Valid continuation calls still get their own request IDs and quoted price, but are charged 0. Changing filters starts a new billable request.

## Output

Returns a list of news articles, each containing a title, URL link, source name, publication date, and a short snippet summarizing the article content. Results respect the requested language, country, time range, and pagination settings.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "q": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Search query"
  },
  "cr": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Restrict results to country (e.g. countryUS, countryGB, countryDE)"
  },
  "gl": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Country code (e.g. us, uk, de)"
  },
  "hl": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Language code (e.g. en, es, fr)"
  },
  "lr": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Restrict results to language (e.g. lang_en, lang_fr, lang_de)"
  },
  "num": {
   "type": "number",
   "description": "Number of results (default 10, max 100)"
  },
  "tbs": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Time filter (qdr:h=past hour, qdr:d=past day, qdr:w=past week, qdr:m=past month, qdr:y=past year)"
  },
  "page": {
   "type": "number",
   "description": "Page number for pagination For later pages of the same logical search, keep non-pagination parameters unchanged and pass top-level parentRequestId from the first Orthogonal /v1/run response."
  },
  "safe": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Safe search: \"active\" to filter explicit content, \"off\" to disable"
  },
  "location": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Location name for localized results (e.g. \"New York, NY\")"
  },
  "autocorrect": {
   "type": "boolean",
   "description": "Enable autocorrect (default true)"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/google-news-search-via-orthogonal-9d2b8f99/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.orthogonal.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.orthogonal.com/llms.txt)