Announcement from the Annual Google IO Conference May 2019.Google is planning to enhance its search results for breaking news and podcast queries.
These changes were announced at Google’s IO conference this past week by CEO Sundar Pichai, who discussed his company’s larger goal of building a more helpful Google for all users.
Changes that are coming in the near future to provide better answers to searchers center around enabling more comprehensive news coverage in search and making it easier to find podcasts covering topics you’re passionate about.
Full Coverage News Coming to Search
“Full Coverage” is a Google News feature launched last year that allows users to get a high-level overview of breaking news events being covered by multiple outlets.
The feature uses machine learning to identify different parts of a story and compiles them into a tappable format to provide users a holistic picture of how a story is being covered by different trusted news sources.
This feature used to only exist in Google News, but it will soon appear in search results for breaking news events.
Google has two goals with this effort; One, of course, is to provide faster answers for people who would just like to get a general overview of a story. The other initiative is to hopefully cut down on the spread of misinformation by providing easy access to credible news sources.
Additionally, for publishing companies, it’s a great way to gain increased exposure of their breaking news coverage.
Podcasts to be Indexed in Search
Earlier this year, Google began automatically transcribing podcasts to allow users to search for specific topics in Google Podcast.
Now, they’ll soon be moving this feature over to search results.
When you find a podcast that matches your query, you can either listen directly in search results, or save it to your phone or smart speaker to access later.
As podcasts continue to grow in popularity, it makes sense that Google would allow you to search for them, in the same way you would blog topics — not just by title, but by what keywords are in the content.
So with news articles getting listed in SERPs for over 6.5 billion Search queries every day on Google, it would boost the eye balls on Google News articles tremendously.
The new Google News is now available in 127 countries and 65 languages. But building a news experience for everyone isn’t just about the languages offered, publishers highlighted, or topics shown. Google also want to make sure Google News works regardless of the phone or cellular service you have. If you go underground on a train and you lose service or you’re somewhere without a strong signal, Google News should still just work.
Google News offers four more core features that meet the needs of users who are using a lighter connection, including those with Android (Go Edition) phones:
When applicable, videos in the app will open in YouTube Go, ensuring that it’s delivered in a lightweight yet clear format. Videos won’t auto-play, saving precious data.
Newscasts (previews of a story) will adapt to become more text-focused, saving you data.
Images are compressed and can be fully loaded with just a tap. Videos and gifs will also not auto-play. Plus, less data will be cached and saved on your device.
Many articles can be saved for consuming in offline mode, easily downloaded over Wi-Fi for reading later.
And all of these features will turn on automatically—no need to toggle on a setting or make sure user is in the right mode.
The Importance of Being in Google News Listings for a Brand.
The below picture depicts the standout features of the news articles content which Google Search displays on it's SERPs at prime locations like top of the SERP or in first view window where the searcher engagement is maximum.
This listing is more enhanced than the regular SERP listings with the article image and a larger snippet description in the SERP listing. It is also prominently placed in the SERPs in locations with a highest probability of clicks.
Being in the Google News listing is a good idea.
The Benefits of being in the Google News listing.
If your website is in the Google News listing, it signifies that you are either running a credible and informative web page. Google is quite particular about the news sites and media articles that they allow to sign up for inclusion in the Google News. Various details and verification checks are carried out by the Google News Publishing Center teams to ensure the accreditation and genuinity of the News Publisher and it's editorial inputs. Hence Users believe that news articles carried out in the Google News app and web section are from a credible Media Publisher Brand.
* You get more traffic on Google News
This is a No-Brainer to all. We all know that Google News is a well-known news aggregator app and web tool that is used by most individuals. With this, you can be sure that your news portal being included in the Google News listing will lead to a bigger traffic on your web page. With regular upgrades to the News App and Web tool, Google has ensured that the Online user / Searcher gets the most qualitative and fresh news to it's users in a friendly user experience format.
* Increases your web page authenticity
Being included in the Google News listing also leads to a great increase in the authenticity of your web page and news articles. In the times of "Fake News" flooding Social Media and Sharing Platforms, a whole lot of internet users believe that the web pages that are included in the Google News listing are authentic. This simply gives your news portal a bigger advantage and makes people feel that your news publishing media brand and business is a genuine Media channel for News and Information.
* Increases in your web page authority status
If you are in the Google News listing, users all over the world will view your web page as an authority web page. More users will link to your site, and more users will bookmark your media news channel and are likely to check back every day. Also, Google and other Search Engines will recompense your page articles in the SERPs.
* You get more back links
A lot of blogs, websites, and so on mostly scout through Google News to come up with various ideas for branching off new follow up stories and articles. If the blogs and websites are upstanding, they will acknowledge your web page with a one-way link to your articles, news, stories. Getting more links from these different quality websites is one of the best ways you can get to the top of the Organic SERPs. Sometimes, when you post some articles or news that is timely on your media web portal, you tend to get a lot of links from other sites. This helps in attaining a better Trust Rank & Domain Rank wrt the Page Rank algorithm of the Google Search indexing.
* Quick indexing of your articles
This is one of the advantages of being included in the Google News listing. When you write quality articles, Google does not just put it in their News index quickly; they also include it in the main Google index also. You can imagine the advantages you can have if your news article ends up being listed as the number one website in the main Google index.
* Multiplier visibility by articles getting shown on Chrome User Default Pages
With Chrome, Opera and many other browsers now displaying fresh content specific to user behaviour on their default home pages especially on the mobile devices, this content is sourced from the Google News and other News aggregator news platforms. For the top ranked articles in Google News for a particular section or category like Business, Technology, Current Affairs, Finance etc., these are shown in a snippet format to all the millions of Browser users by default. This can lead to multiplier effect on visibility, click and web traffic for the media portals from the news articles carried in Google News.
In a nutshell, being included in the Google News listing comes with a lot of benefits. Though it may be tough to get in, if you can be included in the Google News listing, you can be sure it will be of great advantage to you. If you are in it already, you are lucky; now you know the benefits. So, just keep enjoying the benefits of being in the Google News listings.
The bottom line? If you’re not yet visible on Google News, you are missing out on valuable opportunities to attract, convert, close and delight new users every single day.
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If you are in the Google News listing, users all over the world will view your web page as an authority web page. More users will link to your site, and more users will bookmark your media news channel and are likely to check back every day. Also, Google and other Search Engines will recompense your page articles in the SERPs.