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The Internet’s Front Page — Reddit — Now Worthy Of Being In Google News (Sort Of)

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Google News now is considering Reddit, the popular user-generated news site, to be a worthy news source for Google. If you search for [dunkin donuts] in Google, a box with news items comes up in the “In The News” section.

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As tipped to us by Dan Leveille, the first item listed is a Reddit link to an image showing how Dunkin Donuts Halloween Pumpkin donuts don’t really look like they are advertised.

How’s Reddit — which doesn’t seem to match the Google News guidelines for inclusion in Google News — showing up in this box?

As it turns out, the “In The News” box is new and lists more than Google News content. Our follow-up story has more about this:

NOTE: This story has been updated to reflect that Reddit is included in the In The News box listings but not as part of Google News.

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Barry Schwartz
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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