If you monitor a topic through Google News, whether in an RSS reader, an n8n workflow or a script, you are almost certainly reading one country's edition. Usually that is the US one, because it is the default.

I wanted to know how much that matters, so I ran the same searches in four English-language editions and compared the results. The short answer: a lot more than I expected.

Disclosure: I built the Apify actor used to collect this data ( Google News Scraper ). Everything below can also be reproduced with the free Google News RSS feed and a few lines of Python; I show how at the end.

The setup

Queries: AI , AI startup , artificial intelligence , AI model

Editions: US, UK, India, Australia (all English)

Time range: last 7 days (15 to 22 October 2026)

Pulled: 22 October 2026, around 08:00 UTC

Matching: two results count as the same headline when the title is identical

Each edition returned between 365 and 376 unique headlines.…