Google News
Google News is an online news aggregator service that shares articles from thousands of publishers. Searchers can access the app via Android and IOS devices as well.
The company launched a beta version of News in 2002, with the official app rolling out later in 2006.
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SearchCap: Google Business Photos & Chat, AdWords Spring Cleaning & Google Unwanted Downloads
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Search Tests “Chat” Button In Local Business Box Google is testing showing a live chat button in the local search box within the web search results for some businesses. No […]
SearchCap: Judge Tosses Android “Default Search” Class Action Against Google, Hiring A Paid Search Agency & More
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Search Engine Land’s SMX West Is Next Week – Here’s How to Attend Search Engine Land’s SMX West conference kicks off next Tuesday. With over 60 educational sessions and keynotes, networking […]
SearchCap: Google Mobile Carousel Update, Bing Online Ordering & AdWords Android App
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Mobile Search Put Publishers’ Content In Carousels Now users can quickly scan topic-based content from single sources on mobile devices. Bing Offers Link To Order Food Online From Your Favorite […]
Google News Bug Drops Trending Topics From Side Bar Navigation
A Google bug breaks the Trending Topics feature in Google News. A fix is coming soon, says Google's Stacie Chan.
SearchCap: AdWords Updates & Innovations, Local SEO & Google Electric Logo
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: See All Of The New Google AdWords Updates On One Web Page Google creates a new page that acts as a release notes document for showing advertisers the latest updates and […]
SearchCap: Google Bad Ads, Google Mortgage Calculator & Google VP Leaves
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google’s Senior VP Of Knowledge, Alan Eustace, To Retire Google loses another senior vice president and world record holder, Alan Eustace. Free Trip To SMX – Win The Biggest Search Geek […]
SearchCap: Search Ad Copy, Google My Business & Marketing Plans
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Big Digital Marketing Resolutions For 2016 According to columnist Alistair Dent, it’s too late to plan for this year — so get a head start on planning for the next. 5 […]
SearchCap: Google Search Queries, Mobile Snippets & Bing Ads Lag
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Ads Reduces Campaign Reporting Lag To 1 Hour Impression and click performance data is now delivered much faster. Thanksgiving Drove Retailers’ Highest Paid Search Revenue Gains Of The Holiday Season […]
SearchCap: Pinterest Search Customized By Gender, Dissecting Organic Traffic & Expedia Buys Travelocity
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: PLAs Drove 56 Percent Of Non-Brand Google AdWords Clicks In Q4 [RKG] Click share also rose on Bing’s product ads, doubling from Q3. Pinterest Search Is Now Customized By Gender Aiming […]
News Aggregator SmartNews Shows Rapid Growth, Adds Local Channels
SmartNews' usability has driven huge adoption under the radar.
SearchCap: Google Firefox Push, Bing Ads Preview Tool & YP Cross Retargeting
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Suggesting Firefox Users Change Their Search Engine & Home Page Yahoo won the deal to be the default search engine in Firefox in November; now after losing some search share, […]
SearchCap: comScore Search Share, RetailMeNot Google Panda Free & Bing Ads Enhanced Sitelinks
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Right To Be Forgotten: Google Tells Europe It Won’t Scrub Global Index European privacy regulators continue to push for an extension of The Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF) to the entire […]
SearchCap: Bing & Yahoo UI Tests, Lyric Sites Dive In Google & Google News More Trusted
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: What Time Is The State Of The Union? White House Uses SEO To Spread The Word President Barack Obama will deliver his 2015 State of the Union at 6pm PT tonight. […]
SearchCap: Google Maps App Revised, Social Links In Knowledge Graph, Google Structured Data Updated
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Events Knowledge Graph Adds Ticket Links, Delegated Events, Comedian Events & Venue Events Google makes four updates to the events knowledge graph after launching the markup back in March 2014. […]
SearchCap: Google Translate App, Google News Crawler Update & GooglePlex Visitor Center
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Opens A Visitor Center Here are pictures of Google’s temporary tour center, the permanent one is coming in the summer of 2015. Google News Now Will Crawl & Index Images […]
Google News Now Will Crawl & Index Images Hosted Off Your Domain Name
Google News updated their image crawl process to include images hosted off the publishers domain.
SearchCap: Yahoo Directory, Google Lyrics & Santa On Christmas
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Yes, Steve Scalise, There Was A Google In 2002 US House of Representatives majority whip says Google not being “available” in 2002 prevented vetting his speaking to group of white supremacists. […]
SearchCap: Brands Still Confounded By Local Search, Bing Adds Amber Alerts & Local SEO In 2015
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Despite Documented Performance Lift Brands Still Confounded By Local Search Remarkably there are still marketers out there that don’t “get” local search or why marketing campaigns should be localized. There are […]
SearchCap: Google News Spain Lives, Bing Predictions & Google Mobile Thumbnails
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Releases Update To AdWords Editor Version 11 With CTR Bug Fix Fix comes just a week after the initial roll out. Bing Predicts 2015 To Be The Year Of The […]
How Google News Lives On In Spain Despite Being Closed
Did Google News really close in Spain? If you consider Google News to be the ability to browse stories by topic, especially from a dedicated home page, yes. But if it’s the ability to search for and find news stories, then arguably, Google News still lives. Anyone trying to reach the Google News Spain home page […]
SearchCap: Google Top Searches, Nest In Google Now & Google News In Spain Closes?
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google To Close Freebase, Which Helped Feed Its Knowledge Graph Freebase announces they will close up shop after migrating their data and APIs to Wikidata. How will this impact the Google […]
Google News Still Available In Spain Despite Closure Deadline
News outlets such as the Wall Street Journal and AP are reporting that Google News España has shut down. However it appears to still be up and available on the site. As Barry Schwartz points out, if you visit news.google.es you’re directed to the following help page. The page offers an explanation and apology: As […]
SearchCap: Spain Wants Back, Google News Archive & AdWords Countdown
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: New Widget In AdWords Makes Countdown Copy Easy Quickly set up dynamic countdowns in ads without having to type variable strings. Quickly set up dynamic countdowns in ads without having to […]
Spanish Newspapers Want Government To Force Google To Keep News Open In Spain
A new effort by the Spanish Newspaper Publishers Association (AEDE) to prevent Google from shutting down its News site in Spain is an amazing example of industry chutzpah or hubris. The action shows so much chutzpah in fact that it enters the realm of unintentional political satire. First the background if you don’t already know […]
Google News Archive Returns Via Search Tools
You can once again search the Google News archive, dating back to 2003.
SearchCap: Google News In Spain, Bing Hotel Booking & Penguin 3.0
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Rolls Out International Hotel Booking Feature & Updates Mobile Search Results Bing has partnered with TripAdvisor to deliver reviews, booking capabilities and rates for hotel searches in 22 different countries. […]
Strict New Copyright Law Forces End Of Google News In Spain
Google has decided to shut down Google News in Spain. This drastic step will occur next week (December 16) and is the result of a recently passed Spanish law that would have compelled Google to pay licensing revenues to Spanish publishers if their content appeared in Google News — even headlines. Some Spanish publishers, including newspaper group AEDE, […]
SearchCap: Google Penguin Rolls On, AdWords Editor Revamped & Mobile-Friendly Labels Go Global
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Says Penguin To Shift To “Continuous Updates” Google To Continuously “Optimize” The Penguin Algorithm As It Goes Google Overhauls AdWords Editor: Version 11 Released Globally Editor now supports more bulk […]
SearchCap: Google Knowledge Graph Gets Social, Scrollable Google Answers & Google News Suggested Stories
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 20 Ways B2B SEOs Can Leverage Schema.org Markup Structured data markup can improve search visibility, yet few websites use it. Columnist Derek Edmond provides tips for B2B marketers on how to […]
Google News Displaying “Suggested For You” Stories Customized To Match Your Interests
Google News founder Krishna Bharat used his Google+ account to announce a new “Suggested for you” feature in Google News. According to his post, Google News will now include a “Suggested for you” section of news stories to match your interests. [blockquote cite=”Google News Founder”]The goal is to surface narrow and local topics specific to […]
SearchCap: Sweden Considers Imposing “Link Tax” On Google, Bing Predicts 95% Of Election Winners & Local SEO In 2015
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Puts Custom Ebola Info Box At Top Of Search Results & Offers To Match Donations To Help Fight Deadly Outbreak Google announced today it has launched a public fundraising campaign […]
Sweden The Latest To Consider Google “Link Tax” For Newspapers
A member of the Swedish parliament, Niclas Malmberg, wants Google to help fund Swedish news publications along the lines of the French model established last year. Threatened with a “link tax,” Google agreed “to create a €60 million Digital Publishing Innovation Fund to help support transformative digital publishing initiatives for French readers.” Google also agreed […]
SearchCap: Bing Talks Search Share, Matt Cutts On Future With Google & Major Drop In Traffic After Loss Of Snippets
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing: It’s Unlikely That We’ll Take Search Share Away From Google Microsoft’s Director of Search admitted this week that Bing isn’t likely to put a significant dent in Google’s search market […]
German Publisher Axel Springer: Loss Of Snippets Caused 80 Percent Traffic Drop
Axel Springer, Germany’s largest publisher and the owner of Europe’s largest newspaper, has said it wants back in to snippets. According to Reuters, the German publishing giant revealed that traffic to its four largest online properties from Google search results “had fallen by 40 percent” and referrals from Google News had dropped “by 80 percent in the past […]
SearchCap: Google Mobile Usability Reporting, Flash Warnings Expand & Groupon Pages
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Groupon Pages Part Of Company Evolution Into Local Search Site Depending on your viewpoint, Groupon’s new Pages offering is either a helpful new tool for local business owners or a bid […]
SearchCap: Apple Maps Connect, Foursquare Data & Yahoo Search Personalized
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Yahoo Search Now Shows Your Flights, Events & Packages In The Search Results Yahoo announced that Yahoo Search, as well as Yahoo Mail‘s Today section will now show you your upcoming […]
SearchCap: Google Penguin 3.0 Details, Panda 4.1 Strategy & Bing Partners With CNN
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How Panda 4.1 Should Change Your Content Strategy Contributor Jim Yu shares proprietary data that will help you determine how the latest Panda update might affect your site — and how […]
SearchCap: Google’s Advice On XML vs. RSS, Q3 Paid Search Spend Surges & More
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Tune Your Paid Search Campaigns To Account For Holiday Volatility The relationship between bids and conversions is like that between ice cream sundaes and maraschino cherries. It’s theoretically possible to have […]
Google’s “In The News” Box Now Lists More Than Traditional News Sites
Google has confirmed that new “In The News” box appearing in some of its search results now lists content from more than just the traditional news sites. Discussions at Reddit, blog posts, videos and more from non-news sites may turn up. Earlier, Search Engine Land reported how content from Reddit was showing up in the […]
SearchCap: Google Panda 4.1 Continues, Reddit “In The News” & Local Business Videos
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google: Panda 4.1 Still Rolling Out Over the weekend, there was a tremendous amount of chatter within the SEO community, including discussion forums, social media and other channels. There were rumors […]