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.
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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 spam.
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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 fourfold.
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Google expands fact checking effort to all searches worldwide
Is some claim true or not? Google hopes special callouts for fact-checking articles will help searchers get the right answers or better make their own decisions.
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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 conversions.
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Report: Google AMP results in Google News more than doubles
Want your content to be found by mobile users in Google News? Well, it seems like you need to have AMP to make that happen now.
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Google replaces ‘In the News’ box with ‘Top Stories’ on desktop
Google has replaced the “In the news” title with “Top stories” on desktop to bring it more in line with the mobile version of the search results.
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How Google is tackling fake news, and why it should not do it alone
What can Google do to combat fake news? Columnist Ian Bowden illustrates some ways the search giant can tackle — and already is tackling — this problem.
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The trouble with truth
Do search engines and other content distribution platforms have a responsibility to present information that is true? Columnist Janet Driscoll Miller discusses the issues surrounding this question.
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Why Google might not be able to stop “fake news”
Google says it wants to prevent fake news from spreading, but the search giant has serious challenges in actually curbing it.
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Web giants Google and Facebook seek to cut off revenues from fake news sites
These ad policy changes don’t guarantee fake news won’t continue showing up in the Facebook News Feed or Google search results.
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Google News adds “Fact check” label for articles that contain fact-checking content
Google says articles that include the schema.org ClaimReview markup will have the Fact Check tag.
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Complete guide to meta tags in SEO
A completer introduction to all the meta tags a webmaster may need when creating or optimising a webpage for SEO.
Google News Lite mode app launches for slower internet connections
A new lite mode is available in India for the Google News Android app – it uses one-third of the data of the full mode.
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Guide to Google ranking signals – Part 4: content freshness
This week’s guide to ranking signals continues diving into on-page content factors, with content freshness.
Common Crawl Errors for Google News
Google Search Console’s Crawl Errors report has a special section for Google News. Read about the causes and solutions for some common News crawl errors.
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How will the Local Source tag affect SEO?
In order to elevate its Google News feature to meet this standard, Google launched its newest component, the Local Source tag, on Monday, May 9.
Google News adds local source tag to expandable news box to promote major local news stories
With expanded local source tag support, local news is now more important to Google.
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Google Expanding Candidate Cards, Will Also Offer Primary Voting Reminders
Cards will deliver candidate and third-party content to inform voters about about their positions on issues; Google will also provide delegate counts.
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Google Introduces Candidate Cards In Search For Presidential Election Season
Google is giving Republican and Democratic candidates a privileged place in search in 2016. The company has launched what it says is an experimental feature that will create a prominent placement for the candidates’ own messages and content in a horizontal carousel in search results. This is…
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