Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'google news'

The Google News Blog has announced that it is now incorporating YouTube videos with Google News results. As the blog post explains, "You'll see the prefix "Video" next to story titles, and clicking on these video links will open a...

Posted on May 13, 2008 9:41 AM

The Seattle Times reports that Microsoft has launched a brand new Live Search News portal that combines video, news, and video. It's not that different than Google News, WebmasterWorld member Robert Charlton says. He notes that Google feels more like...

Posted on April 23, 2008 7:27 AM

The Google News Team recently blogged about the "secrets" of achieving rank in Google News. They dispelled many myths and clarified other facts. Some of the interesting facts include the following: Having an image next to your article improves your...

Posted on April 3, 2008 9:29 AM

A Google Groups has a member complaining about the number of obituaries found in Google News, the local section. It is from there I learn, that generally, Google doesn't want obituaries in Google News. Google News Guide Marcela said: BonBon...

Posted on February 28, 2008 9:15 AM

Yesterday, at about 10AM Eastern Time, reports came in that Google News search was not working. Barry reports that he also had downtime with Google News yesterday, and four other users also announced that it impacted them. The problem was...

Posted on January 24, 2008 9:42 AM

A Google Groups thread asks if they publish an article and it is found on Google News, but then want to make a change to that article - will it be updated? The answer is no. Google News crawls the...

Posted on January 16, 2008 7:46 AM

Do you hate Britney Spears? You might if you find that she literally is highlighted in Google News everyday. With all her recent insanity problems and the endless custody battle, you might get sick of seeing the same story again...

Posted on January 14, 2008 9:24 AM

A Google Groups thread have reports from some users that Google News, the home page, is not auto refreshing with news. In the past, the page updates the news throughout the day, if you leave the page open. It seems,...

Posted on October 24, 2007 7:37 AM

Since Google can, Google will. With their interest in Facebook (as Marissa Meyer said at a recent keynote at SES San Jose), Google has taken advantage of installing the Google News app on Facebook (account required). One forum member believes...

Posted on October 22, 2007 9:33 AM

There were several reports yesterday of an inappropriate image found on the Google News home page. The image was sourced from an Inside Bay Area article, that talked about a new study on youth STD cases. The image shown on...

Posted on October 15, 2007 8:15 AM

Last week, Danny Sullivan wrote at Search Engine Land that Google has brokered a deal with several major news wire services and will be hosting these news articles on Google's own web pages rather than on individual news aggregator websites....

Posted on September 4, 2007 8:53 AM

Yesterday Google announced that they will be allowing those cited or covered in articles indexed in Google News to leave a comment about that story for all to see. Here is how Google explains it: We'll be trying out a...

Posted on August 9, 2007 7:20 AM

Often, when you view results from Google News or Yahoo! News you are taken to a site that normally would require you to register in order to view the content. But normally, you can view all the content right away,...

Posted on May 21, 2007 8:18 AM

WebmasterWorld thread reports that Google News has added a new sorting option. If you do a search in Google News, you may now see an option at the top right that reads "Sorted by date with duplicates included." Here is...

Posted on May 7, 2007 7:59 AM

digg_url = 'http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/013264.html'; Chris Sherman broke the news last week that Google To Integrate News With Web Search Results. In fact, yesterday, Chris Sherman saw it with his own eyes and email Danny a screen shot to be placed...

Posted on April 26, 2007 6:49 AM

On a recent WebmasterWorld thread, a member asks how the multitude of identical news stories in Google News are handled. Question: how does the dupe issue effect google giving me credit? The articles are identical but I am not sure...

Posted on April 20, 2007 8:45 AM

A Google Groups thread asks how can one filter news searches by publisher. The thread creator asked: I prefer to read certain news sources (CNN, Reuters, AP, etc.). I'm constantly scrolling past many, many reprints of (say) the same AP...

Posted on March 21, 2007 8:23 AM

A Search Engine Roundtable Forums thread asks why does the same search in Google News USA versus Google News UK show different results? He says: It’s obviously how this would be a problem for companies with offices in both the...

Posted on March 2, 2007 6:44 AM

Google has once again been ordered to not index and display the content from a group of Belgian publishers. It started back in September 2006 with Google Cache & Google News Not Allowed in Belgium and then in late November...

Posted on February 13, 2007 8:07 AM

Yesterday I reported at Search Engine Land that Google News Engine Bugging Out. I also see a lot of discussion in the forums that people have been having issues searching at or loading content on Google News. I also have...

Posted on February 2, 2007 7:49 AM

You conducted a Google News Search, let's say on Yahoo, and up come news results related to Yahoo!. But you see those images next to the articles? Where do they come from? That is the question a WebmasterWorld thread asks....

Posted on January 24, 2007 7:26 AM

I have been covering the Google & Belgium legal issues at Search Engine Watch for a while now and I thought it would be a good time to give a short summary for you here. Belgium publishers sued Google for...

Posted on November 27, 2006 7:40 AM

Google released a Sitemaps protocol and reporting engine for the Google News index. I am lucky enough to be included in Google News, so I am able to share with you some of the reports I have in my Sitemaps...

Posted on November 27, 2006 7:19 AM

The sixth edition of the Search Pulse has now been archived. Tim Mayer from Yahoo! was our special guest. Tim told us that we can expect support from Yahoo! on the NOODP tag, but it would be a lot more...

Posted on October 11, 2006 7:18 AM

A reader, reported to me that he found pornographic material on the Google News Home Page, it is live right now. I see it myself, I took a screen capture and blacked out the offensive part. Shocking and I have...

Posted on October 6, 2006 4:19 PM

A featured WebmasterWorld thread argues if the news about Google renting their garage, the garage Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented eight years ago, to house their project, is worth being on the front page of WebmasterWorld or not. In...

Posted on October 3, 2006 7:09 AM