Google’s SVP of product management, in a memo rewritten for public use. The bits about journalism have been quoted in the last week, but not the most interesting ones. Read the whole section and you’ll see what I mean, perhaps.
Google News Blog: Would you like video with that?
Not even sure where to start here – this is awesome, but it suddenly makes SEO for video a really crucial thing to pay attention to. I wonder if it’ll pull metadata from the page the video is embedded on…
Google News Blog: Perspectives about the news from people in the news
Because I need a more complicated way to aggregate comments on news stories. We all do, don’t we? Can’t wait to tell whining sources about this.
Google News Blog: Perspectives about the news from people in the news
Google News – alternate UI
Weird image-based Google News template – hover over an image and the lede loads in the sidebar. Interesting, but given this particular aggregator’s habit of posting REALLY off-topic images next to headlines…
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Introducing Sitemaps for Google News
Get your news site spidered more thoroughly.
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Introducing Sitemaps for Google News
Top 100 U.S. Google News headliners – Newsknife
This is important: Why isn’t your newspaper on this list? Are you writing Web-only informational headlines? I hope so. Do you have duplicate content across a number of sites? I’m pretty sure that’s a negative thing. Check out the list.
Browse Publisher Help – Google News
How to get more action for your newspaper on Google News.
Internet News Article | Reuters.com
World Newspaper Association wants to get their stories out of Google News. “No, no, not free advertising and links to our content! Anything but that! One of the millions of influential advertising targets who gets their news this way might actually rea