Google News Shows News Spikes On Timeline
Google Operating System spotted that Google News started to add timelines to their news clusters. For example, if you search for obama in Google News and then click on the link “all ### news articles,” you will then be taken to the cluster of news items on that topic. That news cluster shows a timeline […]
Barry Schwartz on April 7, 2009 at 10:26 am | Reading time: 1 minute
Google Operating System spotted that Google News started to add timelines to their news clusters. For example, if you search for obama in Google News and then click on the link “all ### news articles,” you will then be taken to the cluster of news items on that topic. That news cluster shows a timeline on the top right section, showing the number of sources writing about that news topic over the course of time.
For example, the cluster for Obama visiting Baghdad has a timeline of news, showing the spike of news stories over the past few days. Here is a picture:
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.