How Google is hurting local news. Our audit reveals that Google News sends readers — and advertising dollars — away from local news outlets. December 22, 2020. The Google company logo.

Local news publishers could get some extra visibility and traffic – both from regular search results and Google News Showcase, Google announced today. Google ranking improvement. Google ...

Google reduces support for local news publishers in California. However, the sunny forecast for California’s news fund has hit a snag. Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposal to trim the state’s ...

Google’s News section will now highlight the importance of local news sources. While Google News has more than 75,000 news sources, it hasn’t always done a good job of surfacing hyper-local ...

Google is showing local news Tweets in certain queries now. Google on Tuesday released new search features intended to give more visibility to local news content when searchers are looking for ...

So far, Google says it has partnered with over 150 news publications in 39 states throughout the US, with over 90 percent of them being local or regional.

The backstory: The deal, announced last August, committed California and Google to each put tens of millions of dollars into a fund to be distributed to local news outlets over five years. In ...

Once a user is logged into their Google Account, they can enter their zip code in Google News to be served local coverage customized for their area. To give it a test, I entered my zip code, 33618.

Following the introduction of AMP articles to Android, iOS, and the mobile web, Google News will now highlight local coverage of national stories by using a new “Local Source” tag.