Dec
19
SEO Update #3: agency death, Yandex growth and MOAR carousels
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google news
Sep
13
New Google update aims to prioritise original reporting over rapid writethroughs
Big news from Google: it's tweaked its algorithms to prioritise original reporting - and to display it for longer.
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Oct
04
Google put speed ahead of accuracy three years ago - and we're all paying the price
Here we go. Following on from my last post, it seems that Google has been including non-Google News posts in
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Oct
03
Google's Top Stories algorithm is failing to detect authoritative sources
This is a pretty significant Google algorithm fail: Also, apparently Google is putting 4chan threads in their top story unit
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Sep
29
Google tightening up First Click Free
Google is making changes to its “first click free” system: In 2009, we updated the FCF policy to allow a
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Aug
01
Gamification the dumb…err…Google way
Beautiful summary: Google News US has launched collectable badges for reading news stories. This is stupid. Mary has provided plenty
Nov
08
How Boris Johnson gets his news
From his column in The Telegraph**, in which he explains why he barely noticed the BBC journalists’ strike: I consume
Oct
06
Fact-checking, Wikipedia and basic journalistic credibility
When I was in my early 20s, and working in my first proper journalism job, my features editor and boss
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