Google adds more ways to keep up with the news
A quiet rollout last week added several features to Google News results. The new features are meant to give searchers more ways to quickly get up to speed on a story. The add-ons alleviate, to some extent, Google’s habit of returning a whole bunch of… Continue Reading
Google to put more newspaper content on Google News
Google is organizing archives and feeds of newspapers around the globe, starting with U.S. newspaper content that has been offline to this point.
Google Vice President Marissa Mayer is expected to announce this, and demo it, at 11:45am at the TechCrunch50 conference. This new data will… Continue Reading
Google licenses AP and other wire content — and stiffs newspapers
Google is paying to licenses content from four wire agencies and will give the wire services more play on Google News — effectively stiffing newspapers and others that Google had linked to previously.
The move is controversial, because there’s already considerable tension between Google and newspapers,… Continue Reading