The Google News Initiative is a year-old set of efforts intended to help evolve publishers’ digital business models, support news...

In February, The Wall Street Journal stopped participating in a program allowing Google visitors to bypass its paywall. The publication...

The Wall Street Journal has confirmed to Search Engine Land that it has removed its content from Google’s First Click Free program, a...

Fact-checking and preventing fake news from appearing in search results will remain a big priority for search engines in 2017. Following...

Since the election, there’s been a lot of discussion about fake news and its ability to sway masses into potentially false...

Last week, Google pledged to fight “fake news” in its search results yet offered up no solutions to the problem. That’s likely because...

Google is adding a new AMP carousel and more AMP-enabled content to its mobile News site and apps. The horizontally scrolling carousel...

For some time, Google has allowed users to customize various aspects of Google Now. But that didn’t extend to the publishers and content...

The European Commission (EC) and other European Parliamentary Committees are working to “harmonize” copyright laws across Europe. There’s...

You don’t have to be a huge publisher to take advantage of Google’s new Accelerated Mobile Pages project. Sure, the feature is already...

Wouldn’t you like to have stuff you read on mobile devices seem to load instantly? Facebook and Apple sure think so. Now so does Google....

Last week, Google rolled out three new journalism endeavors – YouTube Newswire, the First Draft Coalition and Witness Media Labs. It also...

People pay for services that provide access to a wide range of music, TV shows, movies and even books for a low monthly fee. Why not the...

Google has finally released an app for the Apple Watch, the Google News & Weather app. Google made no official announcement about this....

In London today Google has announced a new $150 million Digital News Initiative (DNI). It’s officially intended to help European...

Facebook’s brief outage Friday was annoying to many, including apparently the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department, but it was useful for...

The process for getting your site listed in Google News has been nothing short of a catastrophe over the past few years. Google News has...

more restrictive copyright law was passed in Germany that gave publishers near total control over the use of their content (there’s no...