May 3, 2012 at 1:45pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Google News announced they have added three large changes to Google News. They include larger images on the main page; a realtime coverage page to surface the latest articles and commentary; and relevant Google+ posts for a new social perspective. To me, it pretty much looks like Google is looking for ways to inject Google+ all over Google News. But let's explore the new changes that are rolling out to the U.S. edition of Google News over the next week. Notice the larger image on the story plus the Google+ comment from U.S. Department of State Google+ account: Google News has a [...]

WSJ Pulls Back On What Google Searchers Can Read For Free

Feb 25, 2012 at 2:11pm ET by Danny Sullivan

Are you used to using Google as a way around the Wall Street Journal's paywall? Think again. The WSJ has been holding back stories available through Google's "First Click Free" program, a move that I suspect other newspapers might soon emulate. Over the past few weeks, I've noticed that I wasn't able to read some Wall Street Journal stories when visiting from Google. I figured this was some type of bug. But a recent case got me digging deeper: the Journal's story about how Google created a workaround past Safari's default privacy settings as a way of enabling +1 buttons on Google's ads. [...]

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Google’s January Search Update: Panda In The Pipelines, Fresher Results, Date Detection & More

Feb 3, 2012 at 5:52pm ET by Matt McGee

It's the first Friday of the month, and that seems to be when Google has decided to push out its monthly update of search tweaks from the prior month. The January update is out and it contains a few interesting nuggets. Panda In The Pipelines There's a mention of the Panda algorithm update that we wrote about last week, but it also includes a somewhat cryptic reference to being more integrated into Google's "pipelines." We improved how Panda interacts with our indexing and ranking systems, making it more integrated into our pipelines. Sounds like Panda is baked into things even mor [...]

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Google News Brings Back Search The Web Option

Dec 22, 2011 at 9:24am ET by Barry Schwartz

In June, Google dropped the option to search the general web index from the Google News search box. Google redesigned the Google News search box to add the ability to search the general web index. Here is a screen shot: As you can see, you can click on the last result in the suggestions, you will be taken to a general web search. Plus, as short cut, you can hit the enter key to search Google News or Shift+Enter to search the web. [...]

Google Removes Author: Search From Google News

Dec 19, 2011 at 3:00pm ET by Matt McGee

You can no longer search for articles from specific authors in Google News. As Barry Schwartz reported this morning on Search Engine Roundtable, using the author: firstname lastname command at Google News brings up no results now, and Google has disabled it on purpose. If you think it has something to do with the rel=author movement, it seems that you're correct. Here's what a Google employee named Erik explained in the Google News help forum: The author: search operator is no longer available. For author-specific Google News content, I would recommend use of the Authorship capabilities [...]

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