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Lunchtime links: subs, Google News and the problem with Wikipedia Members Public

It must be the silly season. LinkedIn is getting into subs? Plus some useful stuff on Google News and a critical look at the media/Wikipedia intersection

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
links

SEO Update #3: agency death, Yandex growth and MOAR carousels Members Public

A quick pre-Christmas round-up of the latest search news.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
SEO

New Google update aims to prioritise original reporting over rapid writethroughs Members Public

Big news from Google: it's tweaked its algorithms to prioritise original reporting - and to display it for longer.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
SEO

Google put speed ahead of accuracy three years ago - and we're all paying the price Members Public

Here we go. Following on from my last post [https://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2017/10/google-top-stories-carousel-news.html] , it seems that Google has been including non-Google News posts in the “In the News” box for three years [http://searchengineland.com/googles-news-listings-beyond-traditional-205213]: > Google has confirmed that new “In The News” box

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
accuracy

Google's Top Stories algorithm is failing to detect authoritative sources Members Public

This is a pretty significant Google algorithm fail: > Also, apparently Google is putting 4chan threads in their top story unit now? So, the number one hit for his name is a /pol/ thread. pic.twitter.com/OYwW6pbWvy [https://t.co/OYwW6pbWvy] — Ryan Broderick (@broderick) October 2, 2017 [https://twitter.com/

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
AMPs

Google tightening up First Click Free Members Public

Google is making changes to its “first click free” system [http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/first-click-free-update.html] : > In 2009, we updated the FCF policy to allow a limit of five articles per day, in order to protect publishers who felt some users were abusing the spirit of this

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
first click free

Gamification the dumb…err…Google way Members Public

Beautiful summary: > Google News US has launched collectable badges for reading news stories [http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/shareable-google-news-badges-for-your.html] . This is stupid. Mary has provided plenty of more detailed reasons why it’s stupid [http://maryhamilton.co.uk/2011/08/google-news-doing-gamification-wrong/], too. Another example of Google jumping on

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
games

How Boris Johnson gets his news Members Public

From his column in The Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/8116584/So-journalists-at-the-BBC-went-on-strike-Thats-news-to-me.html] **, in which he explains why he barely noticed the BBC journalists’ strike: > I consume vast quantities of news – but almost entirely without the assistance of the BBC. I get up early and read

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Adam Tinworth
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