Google News

Now on normal searches

[SlyOldDog]

Google have started posting Google news results above normal SERPS results.

[vitaplease]

I think that has been around for a while though.

[NoCarrier]

Not all the servers have been updated yet. I see different results.

[SlyOldDog]

>I think that has been around for a while though.

Are you sure? I cannot see it on www-cw.google.com, so I think it's brand new

[vitaplease]

Do you mean

news:

such as with a search for "news" in Google?

[chiyo]

Ive been seeing (something like)

direct link to 1 or two Googlenews items related to search query including the (85 other sources) bit
Search Google news for <query term>

at the top of a few SERPS, sometimes there, sometimes not, for the past couple of weeks at least i think.

[SlyOldDog]

Chiyo, that's right. It's there when the query is newsworthy.

For example, if you search for "hotel" there are no news items, but if you search for "Bush", there are two fresh news links at the top of the page.

[chiyo]

interesting. wonder how it knows you are interested in politics..? and not looking for "a bird in a bush". (oops sorry.. wrong president)

[martinibuster]

This has been around for awhile, and it's amazing. Google scans a huge database of news sites round the clock. I've posted a news item to a major online news web site and have seen it pop up in the serps an hour later. News items decay after about 72 hours.

Googles usual m.o. (unless they changed it from a few months ago) is to pull serps from scans of the title/headline (not title tag) of the story for keyword matches.

Unfortunately, clever editors determine the titles, not the clever webmasters in charge of traffic.