Google Top Stories Tests "For Context" Section

Jul 28, 2020 - 7:41 am 0 by
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Google Top Stories Context

Google Top Stories is fun and we've seen Google test a lot of different features around it, including adding more descriptions. But now, Google is testing showing a news story with more context using a "For context" section that shows other news stories related to the story in the carousel.

Here is a screen shot from Valentin Pletzer as he posted on Twitter of this in action. I should note, I tried to replicate this and I cannot:

Google Top Stories In Context

Here is his tweet with a couple of screen shots:

Interesting and I guess another way for you to optimize to get your stories in Google's Top Stories - that is if this feature is fully launched...

Forum discussion at Twitter.

Update: Also on desktop:

 

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