Search Engines: News Search Engines
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....
News Aggregator SmartNews Shows Rapid Growth, Adds Local Channels
SmartNews' usability has driven huge adoption under the...
Google Overtakes Traditional Media To Become Most Trusted News Source
According to survey data from the 2015 Edelman Trust Barometer search engines (read: Google) have overtaken traditional media as the most...
Enterprise SEO Interview With ABC’s John Shehata
I spoke recently with John Shehata, the director of search for ABC News. Since he owns the SEO responsibility for a number of large media...
Searching For TV News Online
Most news organizations provide video content on their sites, and aggregators like Google News also offer video clips for some stories. But...
Mobile Search After The Final Mayan B’ak’tun
If you are reading this Search Engine Land column, then you survived the “final day” of the Mayan Calendar as the 13th...
Trapit Aims To Be Your Search “Personal Assistant”
Somewhere between the “precision of search and the serendipity of social media” lies Trapit. Trapit is a “personal discovery...
Report: Tablets Replacing PC News Consumption For Many
A new report on tablet ownership and usage, from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, finds that 11 percent of...
Former Search Tool Evri Joins Crowded iPad News Club
The recent trend for search technologies that aren’t or weren’t able to compete directly as search engines is to become newsreaders...
Former Mobile Search Engine Taptu Reinvents Itself As Tablet Platform Tool
The search technology behind failed social search engine Worio became the guts of the successful Zite app, which was recently acquired by CNN....
Walmart Buys Former Search Engine Kosmix To Power Social And Mobile Shopping
For those who follow search it was initially one of those “WTF moments”: Walmart acquiring erstwhile Google challenger Kosmix....
Kadafi, Gaddafi, Qaddafi: In The Age Of Search, News Publications Still Struggle With Libya Leader’s Name
A decades-old dispute involving Libya remains unresolved. How do news organizations spell the name of Libya’s leader, Muammar Gaddafi? The...
LinkedIn Lauches a Social News Site
If Digg and its myriad imitators were part of “social news 1.0” then a recent wave of personalized news sites, including Flipboard...
Social Voting Sites Dying & Struggling
It’s been a rough week for two of the bigger players in the social voting space. Propeller, an AOL-owned property that grew out of the old...
Google, Yahoo & Portals Are Top Online News Sources: Study
Major news portals — like Yahoo News, Google News, AOL, and Topix — are the most commonly used online news sources, beating out the...
Live Blogging SXSW: RIP Jeff Goldblum, Truth Vs. Web BS
Mediagazer’s Megan McCarthy is presenting a short talk called RIP Jeff Goldblum: Truth vs. Web BS . With computer in hand, here’s a live...
Media News Junkies Meet Mediagazer
Techmeme is one of my favorite sites. It’s my morning “newspaper” that covers technology headlines from across the web. And...
Pew: Portals Most Commonly Used News Sites
The Pew Internet project has just released a lengthy report on online news consumption entitled Understanding the Participatory News Consumer....
Factery Labs’ New Fact Engine: Just What Real-Time Search Needs
Not a month goes by without someone launching a new real-time search engine; but after trying out most of them, there are few I use on a regular...
Yahoo Top News Site, Google Second; People Spending More Time With Fewer Sites
According to November comScore data (published by TechCrunch) Google News is the second largest online news property in the world in terms of...