Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'google news'

Big news for publishers in the Google News index. Inbal from Google announced in a Google News Help thread that in six months, Google will stop supporting the old News Sitemaps format and require you to switch over to the...

Posted on November 5, 2009 2:39 PM

If your publication is included in Google News and you tried to submit a Sitemap file on Friday, you may have noticed it was rejected. Several publishers have been complaining about this in a few Google News Help threads. The...

Posted on November 3, 2009 8:16 AM

Google News has dropped the "Text Version" feature sometime over the past week or so. A Google News Help thread has some complaints dating back to October 22nd. Personally, I don't think I ever used the text option for Google...

Posted on November 2, 2009 8:47 AM

Schwarzenegger Gives California Legislature A Hidden Finger showed how a letter Schwarzenegger wrote had a hidden message. Here it is: Creative, funny and just outstanding journalism. But not all think so. The news made it though various publications and then...

Posted on November 2, 2009 8:16 AM

Five months ago, I wrote a piece named Want Your Google News To Show Up in Google Finance? NASDAQ:GOOG which basically said, put the stock ticker in the title of your article and you're golden for showing up in Google...

Posted on October 28, 2009 9:00 AM

Last night, Google announced a really neat feature for Google News in the Google Labs named Fast Flip. It basically lets you visually flip through Google News, as you would in a magazine, on the screen. The best way to...

Posted on September 15, 2009 8:23 AM

On Saturday/Sunday, the New York Times ran an ad that contained malware. In fact, the New York Times manned up to it in an article named Times Web Ads Show Security Breach. In short, a rogue advertiser posed as Vonage...

Posted on September 15, 2009 7:54 AM

If you were reading the Google News front page early this morning or late last night, you may have seen a highlighted article with a news headline containing a four letter word. The article came from the Village Voice Blog,...

Posted on September 14, 2009 8:48 AM

On occasion I share SEO tips on optimizing for Google News search results. Yesterday, Google's Maile Ohye posted a blog entry at the Google Webmaster Central blog on how to optimize for Google News results in both Google News and...

Posted on September 2, 2009 9:13 AM

There have been on going complaints about the RSS feed Google News generates at Google News Help forums. The complaint is that Google is trimming the title portion of the article in the RSS feed. Let me show you an...

Posted on September 1, 2009 8:11 AM

In the past, once you published a story and Google News indexed it, that was it - Google News would keep the story as is. That caused issues in the past for stories that needed to be updated, but yet...

Posted on August 18, 2009 8:33 AM

A couple months back, Google quietly dropped the feature to comment on Google News. Yes, Google allowed those cited or mentioned in articles to comment on the stories, here is a look at how that worked. For the first time,...

Posted on August 17, 2009 8:22 AM

A Google News publisher asked in a Google News Help thread why his publication rarely comes up in the Google News alerts for specific queries he subscribed to. Inbal from Google explained how alerts get sent and how you need...

Posted on August 12, 2009 8:22 AM

Last year, Google News made their own top news after displaying an United Airlines article, which was very outdated, causing the airlines stock price to drop. The issue was that Google picked up a date on the article that seemed...

Posted on August 11, 2009 8:41 AM

There are several threads about an issue with Google News publishers and Google Webmaster Tools. The largest thread is at Google News Help where the issue is described as the Sitemap file being in the state of pending. The Google...

Posted on August 5, 2009 8:52 AM

About a week ago, we reported the issues Google News was having with some RSS feeds. At that time, Google dropped the RSS links from the main Google News search pages. The question is why did they drop the feature?...

Posted on July 21, 2009 8:51 AM

I am pretty fascinated with how Google News works and how the workflow runs there. I recently spotted a thread at the Google News Help forum which shows how not only does Google review publications periodically, but before removing publications,...

Posted on July 15, 2009 8:33 AM

For several weeks, Google News has been tinkering with their RSS feeds. We have a thread at Google News Help where Googler, Inbal, said it should be fixed in a week or so, well, it has been a week. We...

Posted on July 15, 2009 8:26 AM

WebmasterWorld administration, engine, reported in a WebmasterWorld thread that he is now only seeing UK news at Google.com. He said, in the past, when he wanted UK news he went to Google.co.uk, but when he wanted US news, he went...

Posted on July 10, 2009 9:03 AM

Google has confirmed in a Google Mobile Help thread that many mobile users of Google News will be redirected to the desktop version. Some people already began noticing it and Google's Robin has confirmed it saying: Hi folks - As...

Posted on July 9, 2009 8:55 AM

The Google News Blog is asking Google News publications to sign up for the YouTube Partner Program in order to get your videos more exposure. If you use Google News, you would have noticed that they are playing up YouTube...

Posted on June 30, 2009 8:10 AM

Google News is an extremely powerful way to drive traffic to your site, if it is worthy to be included in Google News. Google Finance is another avenue to drive traffic to your site, but how do you get Google...

Posted on June 26, 2009 8:59 AM

The Google News Blog announced a neat new feature where they hyperlink the author's name in the Google News results. If you click on the authors name it basically takes you to a search for articles by that author, i.e....

Posted on June 24, 2009 8:37 AM

We have covered Google Webmaster tools errors with News sites in the past. But this is the first time I am seeing reports of Webmaster Tools errors specific to News sites that read "Article too long" as the error. "Article...

Posted on June 19, 2009 7:20 AM

Google News is the life blood for many people who try to stay on top of news. It is also fairly hard to be included in the Google News index. So when Google News gets infected with spam, people take...

Posted on June 17, 2009 7:31 PM

Good news for those looking to get included in Google News. Google finally released a much needed Google News Publisher FAQ to answer those common questions. The FAQ is focused on publishers looking to get in to Google News, and...

Posted on June 17, 2009 7:20 AM

Google News and Google Blog search had updates over the weekend. Google News announced the visual update to their home page, while the Google Blog search update was not announced and less visual in nature. The Google News update includes...

Posted on May 19, 2009 2:18 PM

A Google News Help thread reports on a confirmed Google News bug where blank or black images show up in the search results. For example, a search for letsrecycle in Google News returns a result with an image that looks...

Posted on May 8, 2009 8:25 AM

As you know, I bring news and stories to you from my findings in the discussion forums. One of those forums is the Google News Forum. I always find it funny that every day, without question, there are at least...

Posted on May 5, 2009 7:43 AM

Yesterday, Google launched a new labs feature named Google News Timeline which gives you a cool new way to scan news. You can scan the news using an AJAX interface based on chronological order. You can then drag the timeline...

Posted on April 21, 2009 9:09 AM

Early April, many mobile users, who use Google Mobile for News, noticed that Google News on their mobile device was not updating. In fact, the news was outdated for days on their devices. The issue seemed to have resolved itself...

Posted on April 17, 2009 9:00 AM

Over the past few days, the AP and other newspapers and news sources rekindled their campaign against how the Internet works. In short, they are not happy that Google, amongst others, distribute their content to a wider audience and Google...

Posted on April 8, 2009 7:53 AM

The Google AdSense blog suggested that publishers add the Google News Widget to their web site. But publishers are not understanding why they should direct people off their web sites for free. A WebmasterWorld thread asks, what is the incentive...

Posted on March 11, 2009 8:16 AM

If you look at Google News a year ago, you will notice they said they had "4,500 news" sources. Now, if you visit Google News today, you will see they have 25,000 news sources. I do not know when Google...

Posted on February 27, 2009 8:43 AM

It seems like Google News has been dropping publishers from their index. We have several posts in the Google News Help forum. There are a bunch of threads from upset publishers, including two large threads here and here. Jason Dowdell,...

Posted on February 24, 2009 4:36 PM

Last night, the Google News iGoogle Gadget was having issues. The gadget did not show any news at all. Here is the first report I saw from Google Web Search Help. Suddenly last night when I went to my home...

Posted on February 20, 2009 8:57 AM

A search in Google News for santa cruz storm brough up a fake Google News item via the Google AdWords ads for some searchers. Here is a picture sent to me by a reader: Google started showing ads in news...

Posted on February 16, 2009 8:34 AM

Having images show up in Google News can be very beneficial in getting searchers to click over and read what you have to say. The more visually appealing content and images you have in your articles, the better your chance...

Posted on February 6, 2009 8:24 AM

If you recently noticed that your News site is spewing errors in Google Webmaster Tools, under the "Diagnosis" - "News Crawl" reports, do not worry. A Google News Help thread has confirmed reports from Google, that this is just a...

Posted on February 6, 2009 7:57 AM

Google has confirmed the miscellaneous reports of the Google News home page having font size issues. In a Google News Help thread, Googler, Inbal, confirmed the issue that some users are noticing. In short, some users are noticing that the...

Posted on February 3, 2009 8:14 AM

For Google News publishers, getting high placement in Google News can be great. Most publishers would love to see prime time placement of their stories on the main Google News home page, but many settle for ranking well in Google...

Posted on January 29, 2009 3:45 AM

A content publisher asked about getting his publishing site included in Google News. In the Google News Help thread Googler, Inbal, said that you don't always need to have three digits in the URL to be in Google News. In...

Posted on January 28, 2009 3:23 AM

Everyone is talking about the announcement that Google Blog Search looks more like Google News, the home page and works a bit more like Techmeme. Danny has a quick post on it, ReadWriteWeb calls it a Techmeme Killer, but Matt...

Posted on October 2, 2008 8:07 AM

About a week ago, we asked Who's To Blame? Google or Tribune for United Airlines Stock Drop. We unfairly only gave really two options, Google or the Tribune. When I posted the poll, many (16%) responded with the "other" option,...

Posted on September 18, 2008 8:20 AM

If you haven't seen my coverage of the Google News Error Aids In United Airlines Stock Drop at Search Engine Land, let me bring you up to speed in a couple lines. Earlier this week, Google's news crawler crawled Florida...

Posted on September 12, 2008 8:31 AM

Yesterday, Google announced that they are bringing in searchable scans of newspapers into Google News Archive Search. It allows you to search news, headlines, content, and even ads! Here are two ads for a Ford Model T, one from April...

Posted on September 9, 2008 8:07 AM

Publishers really really really want to have their sites accepted into the news search engines. The major ones are Google News and Yahoo News, but there are plenty of others. We have covered a few times, how to get into...

Posted on August 21, 2008 8:07 AM

A Google Groups thread reports some users noticing that Google News is testing a new look. The look is showing news formatted in a one column view, as opposed to two columns. One Google News user said: All of a...

Posted on August 5, 2008 8:41 AM

Numerous webmasters are learning that Google News considers freshness of stories first and foremost. Google News only shows 30 days of news, and once that 30-day window has passed, your news gets dropped into the archives. But not always. According...

Posted on July 29, 2008 9:21 AM

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