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Google’s News Showcase, a program wherein the search giant pays to curate news content from publishers, has launched in the UK and Argentina. In the UK, the service covers over 120 publications, while 40 Argentinian publications have signed up. For readers, the service includes the ability to access select paywalled content for free. News Showcase launched in Germany and Brazil last year, and Australia last week, and now includes content from over 450 publications worldwide. In the UK,… Source link

Google published a blog post (and a video) with a guideline statement meant to discourage using the Web Stories format for the purpose of traffic acquisition. The article and the video note that there are growing amount of articles recommending the use of Web Stories as a teaser, a way to encourage visitors to click through and visit the website. The video notes: “One set of advice that might seem pragmatic at first but will almost certainly backfire. By just building teaser web stories as a… Source link

Google’s John Mueller says Web Stories may be rolled out to search results in additional countries if more sites start publishing them. Mueller states in the Google Search Central live stream from January 15 that this applies to all search features. A site owners writes in asking Mueller if there’s any information about Web Stories coming to search results in other countries. Web Stories are currently supported in search results in the United States, India, and Brazil. The site owner wants… Source link

(BLOOMBERG) – Back in November, it was possible to dismiss the Trump administration’s antitrust suit against Google as too weak, too narrow and too late. But now more than 40 states – and the Federal Trade Commission – have filed suit against another tech giant: Facebook. It seems unlikely to be the last major lawsuit against technology giants. Though these cases are ostensibly about antitrust violations, they are a sign of something bigger: the revival of a longstanding anti-monopoly… Source link

Google News Showcase visitors will soon be able to read select paywalled articles at no extra charge. That’s one of several announcements that the search giant made today about News Showcase, the program where it pays publishers (with $1 billion committed initially) to license their content for a new format in Google News. So far, Google News Showcase has launched in countries including Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, France, U.K. and Australia — in several cases, those are… Source link

Google published a guide with tips to help creators create more compelling Web Stories. The goal of the tips is to encourage publishers with ideas of how to create better Web Stories. Web Stories Content Format Web Stories is a form of content meant to be consumed as snackable content for users who are typically on the go or needing to quickly pass the time with light content. Google promotes Web Stories across various properties including Search, News and Discover. This gives publishers an… Source link

If you’ve recently spotted a little secondary box underneath a Google News story that gives you a big-picture understanding of the news, you’re not alone: Google confirms it’s launching a new “for context” feature in Google News, one which that links to a second, broader story on the same topic. Spotted earlier by Valentin Pletzer on Twitter, the feature appears to be live on mobile phones for some very specific search results: It’s a smaller box in Google’s news box It’s… Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai Pradeep Gaur | Mint | Getty Images Google next month will ban publishers from using its ad platform to show advertisements next to content that promotes conspiracy theories about Covid-19. It will also ban ads that promote those theories. In cases where a particular site publishes a certain threshold of material that violates these policies, it will ban the entire site from using its ad platforms. Google already prohibits ads from running against content that makes… Source link