Google adds local news features to search, giving publishers more exposure
Local news organizations depend on organic search traffic as queries like “news near me” have tripled in the past five years, Google says.
Topic: Poynter Institute
Google launches News Initiative subscriptions lab for publishers
The company also announced new fact-checking tools and other efforts to stop the spread of 'misinformation.'
YouTube aims to show more authoritative search results around news topics
Google to provide more sources and context on breaking news-related searches in YouTube.
SearchCap: Google mobile first index, fact checking partnership & Landy Awards
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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.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 12, 2012
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 3, 2012
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Google’s (Not Provided) Impacting More Than Just SEO Sites
Think that (not provided) is only impacting SEO-related websites? Think again. The Poynter Institute, a non-profit journalism school that’s well known in media circles, wrote Wednesday about the growing impact that (not provided) is having on publisher websites. Author Steve Myers shared what he found after checking Poynter.org’s analytics: Keywords were hidden in 29 percent […]
Panda Update 3.5 Is Live: Winners & Losers
Last week, Google released a new update to its Panda algorithm that targets low-quality content. Who won and who lost? Searchmetrics has posted an analysis of that. Our original story here reported the winners/losers list, as Searchmetrics did, showing who was estimated to have gained and lost in the new Penguin Update that was released this […]
Live Blogging The FTC Workshop On Journalism & The Internet
I’m at the FTC’s “Journalism & Internet Age” Workshop in Washington DC today, where we’re expecting addresses from Rupert Murdoch and Arianna Huffington, along with Josh Cohen of Google News and a variety of panels. I’ll be on one of those panels later today. I’m going to do a big live blog of things I […]