On October 1, in an announcement, Google is rolling out Google News Showcase to select markets. Not only that, the company is also committing $1 billion to partnering publishers. Regarding News Showcase, here's what Google said: "News Showcase is made up of story panels that will appear initially in Google News on Android. The product [...]
Google announced back in June that they will release a news-content licensing program that will pay publishers for high-quality content for a brand new 'news experience' released later this year. According to Google, this initiative is going to have “an enhanced storytelling experience that lets people go deeper into more complex stories.” Germany, Brazil and Australia [...]
For years now, European news publishers and governments have tried getting Google to pay them to license content with legal and legislative battles and tortured fights over copyright laws. Google is now ready to comply after fighting the idea of paying publishers to display or link to their content. According to Google in a recent blog [...]
Google's search results are being changed how news stories are being presented. When users search for news, they will usually see two top stories and a horizontal, scrolling carousel of results (AMP pages). As of December 11 on mobile devices, people began seeing multiple carousels of news stories on the same topic. They’ll also find [...]
According to an announcement on December 10, Google has finally launched the Publisher Center, which is an interface that lets publishers to submit, manage and monetize their content in Google News and other Google properties. The Publisher Center is the merging of two other existing tools, Google News Publisher Center and Google News Producer. With [...]
On November 4, Google announced that the Google News app will now let users see content in two languages. How to set up multiple language preferences within the Google News app. Source: Google. This feature is available across 141 countries and 41 languages on the Android and iOS versions of the Google News app. It is [...]
Google is preparing to change how it presents content in search results pages in France and throughout Europe. This follows the new European Copyright Directive that first rolled out in France. The intention behind the Copyright Directive is to generate fees for media publishers whose content appears in search results and on news aggregation sites. Google however has [...]
A new page design is being rolled out by Google for the Google News search results while on desktop. The new design takes away the news clusters of stories and brings you a single featured story in a card-like result. The following image is of the before and after. The left one shows the new [...]
Danny Sullivan of Google posted on the Google Webmaster blog some tips on how to succeed in Google News in 2019. “We’d like to offer some best practices and advice we hope will lead publishers to more success within Google News in 2019,” Sullivan wrote. The advice. Here are key takeaways for Google News SEO best practices: Make [...]
It has been confirmed by Google that changes will be made to Google News in order to help publishers find their sites and articles in Google News. Lisa Wang confirmed this information in the help forums after months of complaints from news publishers that their content not being displayed in Google News for relevant queries. “We are working [...]