Google is testing a button in the search results under the top stories news results to see “more news topics.” I personally cannot replicate this, which makes me think this is new. This was spotted by Punit who shared this screenshot of the button on Mastodon: When click “Entertainment”, it goes to “entertainment news” in […]
This week, we covered another Google Search indexing issue, plus this ongoing issue with recipes in the Google Search results. I suspect we will soon have a very big Google Search ranking update – a storm is coming. The cache link is gone, and Google told us yesterday that the cache functionality will fully disappear […]
Ever since December 2019, when Google removed the requirement for publishers to manually apply for inclusion into Google News, publishers have been pretty upset about the lack of transparency around Google News inclusion. Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, said on Mastodon that he would like this process to get better. The topic has come up […]
Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, responded to the article from 404 Media titled Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles. In short, Sullivan said that the way they filtered Google News was by date and not relevancy (relevancy filtering is the default) and that Google can always do better. First go read the article, […]
It seems that YouTube is not showing up in Google News as often as it use to. Will Flannigan, the SEO Editor at the Wall Street Journal posted a chart from The Trisolute News Dashboard showing the drop in visibility experienced by YouTube in Google News. This means that YouTube videos and results are not […]
As Threads continues to steadily gain momentum, it’s also looking to add more features to fuel more engagement, and essentially reach parity with X, and other social apps. In order to do that, it needs to add DMs, which it seems to be working on, and hashtags, another highly requested feature, which Instagram chief Adam […]
Get the need-to-know highlights from the social media industry that happened the week of October 9-13. Meta Creator Compensation for AI Chatbots Meta is investing heavily in creators, with a whopping $5 million deal for a top creator’s contribution to AI chatbots. Explore Meta’s creator programs to potentially monetize your contributions. AI Celeb Backlash Meta's […]
The Google News Showcase is new for those in the US and with that we are seeing content from within the Google News Showcase show up in more places. One place it can show is in Google Discover with a “Showcase” label. Glenn Gabe is big into Google Discover and for the first time recently […]
Get the need-to-know highlights from the social media industry that happened the week of October 2-6. 1. Agencies Rethink Meta’s Platforms Digiday reports a decline in agency investments in Meta due to diminishing returns. This could lead to lower advertising competition and costs on Meta platforms. 2. Meta’s Subscription Model WSJ unveils Meta’s ad-free subscription […]
Google News, the portal, seems to be testing displaying the author name below the publication name in the article card snippet interface. Google recently tested this for Google Discover stories and Top Stories in Google Search. Now Google is testing it for articles listing on Google News at news.google.com. Shalom Goodman shared an example of […]