Bloomberg: Google loses copyright cases in Germany
The search giant has lost two cases involving thumbnail images included in the previews of search results. The rulings can be appealed. Full story...Tags: Copyright, Germany, google, search results
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Googleblog: archived newspapers going online
Google is making it its mission to make old newspapers available online. The search giant will partner with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives, and hopes to make more newspapers accessible and searchable online. In time these archives will be blended into the main Google search results. Full story...Tags: Archiving, google, newspaper publishers, search giant, search results
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Guardian most popular newspaper website in UK, according to Nielsen Online
Some significant differences between the figures for unique users visiting UK newspaper sites released by Nielsen Online today and those announced by the Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic (ABCe) last week.
While both rank the Guardian as the most popular in the UK, Nielsen’s figures suggest the site attracted 3 million unique users in the UK in April compared to 7,762,826 recorded by the ABCe.
The Telegraph attracted 2.7 million UK uniques in April, according to Nielsen – around 3.5 million less than the figure reported by the ABCe.
By the Nielsen figures the Sun attracted 1.9 million UK unique users, the Times 1.8 million and the Daily Mail 1.7 million over the same period.
Nielsen calculates its traffic figures using a panel-based method called NetView, which the company describes as ‘around 45,000 UK internet users who have opted in to download a meter which records all their PC, online and application usage on a continual and ongoing basis.’
In contrast, websites register themselves with the ABCe, which then audits data on web traffic recorded by the sites.
Very different methods – very different results.
Interestingly Nielsen also provides data on the ‘engagement’ of UK unique users with a site, differentiating between ‘heavy’ (>15 minutes), ‘medium’(>5 - >=15 minutes) and ‘light’(<=5 minutes) users.
The results of this analysis suggest the most popular online newspapers – the Guardian and Telegraph – have the highest percentage of light visitors (with 83%and 81% respectively).
The results for engagement in full:
Sun: 14% heavy, 16% medium, 70% light
Times: 13% heavy, 17% medium, 70% light
Daily Mail: 12% heavy, 14% medium,75% light
Telegraph: 7% heavy, 12% medium, 81% light
Guardian: 6% heavy, 11% medium, 83% light
The figures suggest that the Times is the only title to have gained in ‘heavy’ users since January 2008, while the Telegraph has recorded the biggest increase in ‘light’ users over the same period.
As Stephen Brooks, UK managing director for Nielsen Online, pointed out in the release: “Analysing the Telegraph’s audience by heavy, medium and light visitors reveals their dramatic growth in popularity is concentrated around light users, which could be due to the site’s improved visibility in search results,”
“This encapsulates the ‘reach vs engagement’ conundrum that newspaper sites face – is the best path to financial success attracting the most visitors or having a smaller core of more engaged users?”
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BBC: Google and Yahoo to share ad space online
Google and Yahoo have announced a two week experiment that will see the web giants take a share of each other’s advertising space.
During the trial Google will be able to put ads next to 3 per cent of search results on Yahoo.
Microsoft, which recently offered to buy Yahoo, has criticised the scheme.
“Any definitive agreement between Yahoo and Google would consolidate over 90 per cent of the search advertising market in Google’s hands. This would make the market far less competitive,” Brad Smith, Microsoft’s General Counsel, told the BBC.
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Google to plot New York Times stories on Google Earth
Some New York Times stories will be plotted geographically, in real time, on Google Earth.
“The New York Times offers geo-coded news, and Google Earth offers the platform for reading that news in a 3D browser. This is the first time we’ve endeavoured to show news updated in real time, and we’re very excited to work with this first-class publication to bring you the latest and greatest news,” claims the Lat Long Blog - written by the Google Earth and mapping teams.
The map allows users overlay a NYT news layer so that when they to fly around the earth, relevant news for the place they are hovering over appears.
This is just the latest iteration in a growing obsession by large news businesses to get their news mapped. It isn’t a million miles away from Metacarta’s Geosearch News – a site mapping over 14000 daily news stories across the globe.
That map lets users specify a place-of-interest and returns mapped search results presented in order of relevance - as determined by a combination of keywords and the specified location.
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Innovations in Journalism – Twittermeter
We give developers the opportunity to tell us journalists why we should sit up and pay attention to the sites and devices they are working on. Today it’s graphs charting keywords being micro-blogged on Twitter.
1) Who are you and what’s it all about?
My name is Greg Lavallee. My day job involves web development for non-profits. I satisfy my development and data-oriented urges off the job, Twittermeter was one of a few little side things I did to keep my brain limber.
Twitter is a micro-blogging tool that allows users post short messages via SMS, web or phone and to ‘follow’ friends posts with alerts to their phone, IM client, or the web.
It’s popular amongst the techy set. Knowing that it has a pretty stringent demographic makes looking at what people are twittering about more interesting and that’s what the Twittermeter does. Site visitors can enter one or more words and see them graphed over time.
The programming behind it is a mash-up of multiple APIs from around the web - nothing too custom.
2) Why would this be useful to a journalist?
The Twittermeter provides a graphical representation about what the tech-set is talking about.
Unlike Google Trends, which just measures what people are searching for, Twittermeter is able to capture what they’re texting each other about.
3) Is this it, or is there more to come?
Lots more. I’m redoing the system now to work with a partner who is already capturing similar data for a twitter search engine (Terraminds.com). I’d also like to track popular searches.
4) Why are you doing this?
Just for fun! I used to do a lot of data analysis and now I twitter a lot, so this was a good way to experiment with data visualization, data analysis and my urge to micro-blog.
5) What does it cost to use it?
Zero!
6) How will you make it pay?
I’m considering trying to have ads that run based on the search results, but otherwise it’s not really meant as a money maker… just a fun project to keep my mind working.
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Google News search gets local
Google News has developed a new feature that enables searches for location-specific news. Users can now search for items by the name of any city, state or country, or by zip code in the US .
The service is currently only available for news items in English and will promote local sources for local stories in search results, a blog post from Google software engineers Andre Rohe and Rohit Ananthakrishna says.
“We’re not simply looking at the byline or the source, but instead we analyze every word in every story to understand what location the news is about and where the source is located,” write Rohe and Ananthakrishna on the Google News blog.
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RSS feeds for search results at The Sun
Paul Bradshaw has flagged up an interesting (and handy) feature on The Sun’s website through the Online Journalism blog, namely that the newspaper site offers users an RSS feed for stories relating to a search term.
After using the site’s search, the option to set up an RSS results feed can be found at the top of the results page.
As Paul points out, this is similar to the serviece offered by Google News, but a quick search suggests that this is not a feature on any of the other national newspaper websites in the UK.
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Google search looks to bloggers
Word on the blogosphere is that Google is now publishing Google Blog search results in responses to main search queries.
And as far as the Journalism.co.uk blog goes it’s true. A search using just the search term Omgili brings up the recent post on our blog as fifth in the results.
As Problogger argues, this is good news for bloggers who will see their posts soar up the rankings and for users who want the most up to date discussion.
Several commenters ask whether this is related to Google’s recent aquisition of FeedBurner and whether it’s only blogs indexed by FeedBurner that feature in the results.
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