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Google News Initiative kicks off with Subscribe With Google, other efforts
Subscribers will see articles from their subscribed publications higher in the search results and be logged in to those publications across...
Google drops support for meta news keywords tag
After years of telling publishers to use the news meta keyword tag, Google said it stopped supporting it months...
Google accidentally removes news publishers from Google News
It is expected that affected publishers will be reinstated by the end of the...
European press agencies push for licensing fees for their content from Google, Facebook
It remains to be seen whether European legislators and regulators will pick up the cause, but there's a possibility that they will....
Google Trends now shows data for YouTube search, Google Shopping, News search & Image search
Google says it aims to open up more data to show what's being searched around the world....
Google tries to bring more transparency to news content with help from The Trust Project
Google will display indicators to help distinguish between quality journalism and false information in search and elsewhere....
Google News adds new referral URL source that publishers should begin tracking
Google tells publishers to add news.url.google.com to the Google News referral tracking...
Google adds new knowledge panel to provide information about news publishers
In an effort to combat fake news and equip searchers with more data about news sources, Google has released a new publisher knowledge...
Google promises to improve accuracy of tweets shown in search results
After misinformation surfaced in the Google search results under the Twitter section for the Texas church shooter's name, Google has promised to...
Google News to deprecate old RSS feed URLs on December 1, 2017
Do you subscribe to Google News RSS feeds? Well, you may have noticed that they appear to be completely broken...
Google announces new Poynter partnership to train more news fact checkers globally
Support of the International Fact-Checking Network will provide tools and training for more fact checkers around the world....
Google adds structured data for subscription & paywalled content for new flexible sampling program
Excited for the new flexible sampling program for Google web search and Google News? Well, make sure you don't get in trouble for cloaking by...
Google: First Click Free is over, being replaced by Flexible Sampling
Google is rolling out a suite of tools to help news publishers drive more subscription revenue....
Report: Google ending ‘first click free’ to help publishers boost subscriptions
The WSJ pulled out of FCF and saw traffic losses but higher subscription revenue....
Breaking news: When AMP goes through the roof
Columnist Barb Palser says many big news stories are now consumed primarily in AMP...
Google News gets a cleaner look, new features to make it ‘more accessible’
The new design is simpler to use, more visually appealing and offers more content and context....
Google News spammed with drug spam, dating sites & more
Beware: The Google News health section is now filled with a lot of hacked content and...
Wall Street Journal’s Google traffic drops 44% after pulling out of First Click Free
Despite less traffic, paid subscriber conversion said to be up...
Google expands fact-checking effort to all searches worldwide
Is an online claim true or not? Google hopes special callouts for fact-checking articles will help searchers get the right answers or better...
No more free ride: Wall Street Journal pulls content out of Google’s “First Click Free” program
WSJ move might cause other publishers to remove content from Google's program, if it turns out "Subscription" label doesn't hurt...
