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Jailbreak scams have been around for quite some time. Softpedia has been trying to raise awareness and identify scam sites for several years now. Today, researchers from security firm F-Secure have spotted a new spam campaign that’s abusing black hat search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to inject ... |
17 June 2013
07:31 GMT |
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As the news publications struggle to come to terms with the web and make money online, one way of generating revenue that is becoming popular is advertising as content, i.e. ads published as regular articles.
These publications reveal the fact that the articles in question are paid for, but from a technical point of... |
28 March 2013
10:21 GMT |
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Google is facing the prospect of having to remove all links to news sites from its search results or Google News, which doesn't sound like fun for anyone involved. The company may be forced to do it if a proposed law comes into effect. The law would have Google, and any other search engine for that matter, pay ... |
27 November 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Google News is getting a small redesign, the search results section is now more like Google News itself. Apart from the new layout, there is also a new way of grouping news that are linked together, only the top result now gets an expanded view, the rest get just one source.
"Last year we updated Google News to mak... |
23 October 2012
04:52 GMT |
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It's not just news publishers in Europe that are looking to accelerate their destruction, it's happening all over the world. Brazilian newspapers, the 90 percent or so that are part of the Association of Newspapers in Brazil, have pulled out of Google News.
What this means is that stories from those newsp... |
20 October 2012
10:31 GMT |
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If French news publishers really want to shoot themselves in the foot (and face and stomach), Google is going to let them.
That's the gist of a letter from Google sent to several French ministers regarding a proposed law that would require search engines to pay news sites for sending people to said news sites.... |
19 October 2012
04:43 GMT |
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Google is not done with the year-long spring cleaning. As soon as Larry Page took over as CEO, Google started closing down or merging services and products that weren't getting much traction. The big ones are long gone now, but Google is still shutting down or changing features and smaller services to make for m... |
1 October 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Over the past several months, Google has been working on revamping the looks of all of its products. The new design is supposed not only to look good, but to also feel familiar no matter what site you're on. All of this and have to be practical at the same time, of course.
Being such a large undertaking, it... |
22 December 2011
06:02 GMT |
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Google+ is sweeping into everything else Google does, slowly but surely, exactly as planned. The latest small step is a new addition to the Spotlight section of Google News.The section will now sometime include news articles that your friends and contacts have +1'd. This should help you discover things that may ... |
23 November 2011
15:31 GMT |
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Google News is making it easier to keep up with news, literally, from around the world. For international stories in particular, Google will start surfacing original sources as well and offer to translate them into English.The new translation feature is only available for the US English version of Google News, but th... |
26 October 2011
08:01 GMT |
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Google has been working to make News more friendly to publishers lately, after being the target of quite a lot of criticism. It's not clear whether all of these changes actually benefit the users, but it's at it again with a new metatag which enables publishers to label their most important stories as '... |
26 September 2011
04:37 GMT |
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Google has gotten rid of the dedicated Google News crawler and instead it is now using the main search one for News as well. While this means that Googlebot-News will no longer show up on your site, Google says that you can still treat the two types of visits differently and still block the news crawler while allowin... |
26 August 2011
08:20 GMT |
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One of Google strengths and touting points has been its reliance on algorithms for getting things done. But this is one of its biggest weaknesses as well and it nowhere more apparent than in Google News. Which is why Google started experimenting with the idea of having human editors that would pick stories to be show... |
5 August 2011
11:21 GMT |
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Google's company wide redesign has claimed another 'victim,' Google News is now sporting the new Google+ inspired looks. The layout is pretty much the same, just the graphical elements have been altered.
That said, the new Google News looks pretty good, to be expected since it borrows all of the el... |
22 July 2011
08:32 GMT |
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Google is under more and more pressure from government regulators as the site gets bigger and bigger. There is a fear that the site's size may be encouraging unfair and anti-competitive behavior on its side. But, even as Google is being pressured into being 'fairer' by allowing more sites to be visible... |
19 July 2011
12:41 GMT |
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Google News is not exactly the go to site to get the latest scoops and important articles on the things that interest you. It's used by millions of people, yes, but anyone needing real-time info looks elsewhere, mostly to Twitter. But Google is bent on changing that and it's come up with a killer feature, b... |
15 July 2011
06:03 GMT |
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For the past few years, Google has been flirting with news, either by expanding its Google News product but also through several other tools designed for news publishers, partly because of the tension between the company and old school publications. But it's been lacking focus, something that may change now that... |
23 June 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Security researchers from cloud security provider Zscaler have come across a Google News black hat SEO campaign which uses numerous co.tv rogue domains.The targeted keywords are related to actor Laurence Fishburne's departure from the popular CSI TV series. Most people remember Fishburne as Morpheus from The Mat... |
11 June 2011
07:19 GMT |
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Google has abandoned a project which aimed to digitize the newspaper archives of the world. The ambitious project was right up Google's alley, it's already digitizing millions of books, but the company has decided to end all efforts and focus on other technologies and tools.The company sent an email to publ... |
20 May 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Google News has been around for about a decade now. It's one of Google's earliest efforts to move beyond search, though the product is clearly linked to the search algorithms and technology. It's evolved throughout the years and is now getting another spruce up.The user interface, which has been update... |
17 May 2011
03:50 GMT |
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Google may not be doing so great with the 'social' web, but it's faring much better with the 'local' web, the other big trend of the moment. No doubt, its Android bet has paid off, but there are still plenty of opportunities in the mobile and local space. One that hasn't been realized so... |
14 May 2011
04:50 GMT |
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Google has debuted a useful search feature, it's now displaying the latest story titles for news-related websites instead of the regular text snippets. Titles are listed along with an approximation of how fresh they are. Google hasn't said anything about the change, but it rarely does when it comes to small... |
6 May 2011
09:40 GMT |
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Google is tapping into its wealth of data once again to, hopefully, make the personalization feature in Google News better. Interestingly enough, Google is using Web History data to find stories you may like and then suggesting them in the Personalized U.S. Edition of Google News. Obviously, this only works for logge... |
22 April 2011
09:40 GMT |
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The mobile space is very hot right now, but developers are usually focusing on the latest and greatest smartphones and the powerful apps and websites that run on them. It's easy to forget that, for most of the world, smartphones aren't a reality and most phones are very basic.What the US calls 'feature... |
16 April 2011
03:30 GMT |
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Google has just announced that it performed a series of enhancements to its Google News service for mobile phones, and that those people who are using the Opera Mini mobile browser on their devices would be those to benefit the most from these enhancements. The new improvements were meant to provide more users with ... |
15 April 2011
06:04 GMT |
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An antitrust investigation concerning Google ended in Italy after the company made several pledges calming the fears of newspaper publishers. The complaint was that Google was making money from the publishers' content by listing it in Google News. What's more, they also claimed that Google was conditioning ... |
18 January 2011
05:47 GMT |
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Google hasn't given up on its plans to add social features to its products, in fact it's going all or nothing with Google Me, and is now introducing a new feature to Google News, a top of the most shared stories of the moment. It's not clear if this is part of the broader strategy at Google, but the ne... |
1 December 2010
05:41 GMT |
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Google is testing Twitter integration with News. Some visitors are asked to share their Twitter username and are then served news that their Twitter friends have shared. The feature appears to be part of Google's plan to add a social layer to all of its properties. Some users, as Search Engine Land reports, are ... |
8 October 2010
04:53 GMT |
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Google News, one of the earliest signs that news is changing, is turning 8. While the service has been controversial at times and it may even be regarded as a bit outdated, it was one of the first popular and efficient news aggregators and its influence can't be denied. News, just like pretty much everything els... |
22 September 2010
12:14 GMT |
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Google News got a major redesign a couple of weeks ago, the first since it was launched. The result of months of testing, the new site has been received very well, according to Google. However, a group of users have been very vocal about their dislike of the new Google News and have complained to Google and everywher... |
16 July 2010
06:53 GMT |
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Google News got its first redesign since launch last week and the changes are pretty significant. The layout of the page has been altered dramatically and several features have been changed, removed or replaced. Google focused on a couple of main themes with the redesign, better sharing options and better personaliza... |
5 July 2010
11:16 GMT |
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Google News has just gotten its first major redesign since being introduced in 2002. No wonder then that the new design has been in testing for months, as Google tweaked and adjusted the features and layout to get it just right. There are a couple of main themes throughout the new Google News, more personalization, t... |
1 July 2010
04:23 GMT |
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Google and news organizations haven’t been seeing eye to eye very much lately. Some traditional news outlets have gone as far as accusing the company of ‘stealing’ their content with Google News or even through the search engine. For its part, Google has tried to make peace, though it hasn’t b... |
18 June 2010
11:44 GMT |
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Google’s mission is to make the world’s information easily accessible and, for many, news is one of the most important type of information. But Google’s dealings with news organizations, especially the ‘traditional’ kind, haven’t always been great. The company is trying to rectify ... |
11 June 2010
12:04 GMT |
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Google has been experimenting with various ways for users to consume news stories that sway from the traditional approach and generally feel more native to the web rather than an application of the print model online. One interesting experiment was Living Stories, in which the company partnered with reputable publica... |
18 February 2010
10:23 GMT |
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People have been spotting a significant Google News redesign in the wild for some time now and Google has finally confirmed that it is indeed testing a brand new homepage for its news aggregator service. Interestingly enough, Facebook isn't the only one being inspired by Twitter, it looks like Google liked the ... |
16 February 2010
06:39 GMT |
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Websites evolve, it's a fact of life, they all need to be constantly refreshed as things move pretty fast online. Every time one major site decides to roll out a new feature or design, you can be sure there's a number of people who are going to hate it, almost instinctively. And you can also be sure that th... |
13 February 2010
06:27 GMT |
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It looks like Google and the AP(Associated Press) are on speaking terms again though none of them are what you'd call 'talkative'. AP news stories have started showing up on Google News again after seven weeks of radio silence. Google has had an agreement with AP to host news stories on Google News its... |
10 February 2010
06:05 GMT |
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The Google - Associated Press 'saga' drags on, but the story got an interesting twist as Yahoo announced a new agreement with the news wire agency which will allow it to host AP content on its sites under new terms for an unspecified period of time. The new deal was rumored to be coming for a couple of wee... |
2 February 2010
06:30 GMT |
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Google News may be a great target for disgruntled news publishers looking for someone to blame, but the service can be a great tool for readers and news sources alike. It's not perfect, but it does have some unique advantages and today it can add a new tool to its arsenal. Interesting stories can now be 's... |
2 February 2010
05:39 GMT |
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Much of the old guard news and publishing industry has been critical of the Internet, bloggers, search engines, news aggregators and pretty much anyone else they can point their finger at for, allegedly, creating the financial problems most of those organizations find themselves in. Looking at their own organization... |
14 January 2010
06:56 GMT |
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Just as the infamous 'three-strikes' law gets delayed further in France, the UK is working on its own controversial version. Dubbed the Digital Economy Bill, the law outlines government policies mostly relating to the Internet and has gotten a lot of flack for some of its provisions regarding copyright. The... |
12 January 2010
13:23 GMT |
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One interesting piece of news that's been making the rounds of tech blogs and has now reached the more mainstream publications is Google's decision to stop hosting AP content on Google News. People noticed that, as early as December 24, new AP stories, which show up on Google News through a licensing agree... |
12 January 2010
10:39 GMT |
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Despite some of its flaws, Google seems determined to turn Fast Flip, the experimental news-reading app, into a success. It is still not polished enough to leave Google Labs, but it has gotten a lot more exposure, as it is now featured on the Google News homepage albeit at the very bottom. The change isn't entir... |
9 January 2010
05:31 GMT |
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Google is continuing to do more than it probably has to in order to appease the dying newspaper industry, though its efforts have largely gone unnoticed. About three months ago, Google revealed Fast Flip, an experimental tool designed to make browsing through articles from various online news sources fast and seamle... |
17 December 2009
06:48 GMT |
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The whole news publishers versus Google debacle keeps on going and, for the most part, Google is sitting on the sidelines. Once in a while it responds, indirectly, to the accusations by underlining the benefits it provides news sources. And to show that it's not completely deaf to the criticism, Google is now ch... |
2 December 2009
05:04 GMT |
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Google has released a brand-new, mobile-formatted version of its Google News homepage for iPhone and iPod touch users. To access the mobile Google News site, simply point your browser to news.google.com from Safari on your device. Google News for iPhone and iPod touch is the same for Android and Palm Pre users, and ... |
20 November 2009
10:35 GMT |
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Search engine company Google has just announced that mobile phone users owning a device powered by Apple's iPhone OS, Google's Android platform or Palm's webOS client (Palm Pre) are now able to enjoy an updated Google News offering. The new flavor of Google news for these handsets follows the previous... |
20 November 2009
02:37 GMT |
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Google News, one of the company's most “feared” products, is about to get even more powerful with a new customization option. Plainly labeled “Custom sections,” the feature does exactly what you'd expect, it allows you to create your own news section based on any topic you want. What... |
5 November 2009
04:34 GMT |
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Seeing how the newspapers haven't been able to come up with something to start generating some real revenue online, with income from the paper versions going way south as well, but that they are hell-bent on blaming everyone else but themselves for their troubles, Google took it upon itself to offer them a solut... |
10 September 2009
06:13 GMT |
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