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Opinion News in Top Stories Earlier this year, I wrote a post about news stories in carousels in Google Top Stories Are Chosen By Importance Scores In that post, the patent I wrote told us that Google might attempt to show opinion pieces related to topics that were being identified as top stories, but it … Read more
Google has Changed Top Stories in Carousels in Search Results Google made an announcement on its Keyword blog about top stories from non-news sites. They told us about this in Smarter organization of top stories in Search. They start the post by telling us: People come to Search for all types of information to help … Read more
Image: Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash Did Google’s News Ranking Algorithm Change? A Google Patent about how Google ranks news articles was updated this week, and in this case, it suggests how entities in those documents can impact ranking. How Has the News Ranking Algorithm worked at Google? This News Ranking Algorithm Patent was … Read more
Google News Recommendations I’ve seen posts from SEO by the Sea show up in search results with an “In the News” heading above them, even though my site hasn’t officially been accepted in Google News. Some blog posts that have been given that “In the News” treatment have been criticized lately. See: Google does a … Read more
The image above, from Google’s patent, shows a source rank that no longer exists in the same way that it did when this patent was first published. Algorithms can change over time, and this one likely did. Neither The Nation or Computerworld should write about patents. Period. Never. In the past couple of days Computerworld … Read more