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Finding Peace in the Kingdom with Publishers and Platforms
medium.com
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Google formed its Digital News Initiative... €150-million innovation fund, though I see that more as a blackmail pot than as a strategic benefit to a struggling industry: bags of coins tossed to drowning journalists.

30/07/2016
WTF are Progressive Web Apps?
digiday.com
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Publishers can get all the benefits of the mobile web with all the functionality of mobile apps thanks to Progressive Web Apps... Here’s a primer: - build a mobile website that can perform super-fast and behave just like an app... lets people interact with it like an app without the hassle of downloading it. - can load on a number of browsers an…

23/05/2016
AI Is Transforming Google Search. The Rest of the Web Is Next
www.wired.com
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Artificial intelligence is the future of Google Search, and if it’s the future of Google Search, it’s the future of so much more... with its head of AI taking over search, the company seems to believe this is the way forward.

04/02/2016
re:Work
rework.withgoogle.com
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Practices, research, and ideas from Google and other organizations to put people first. re:Work is organized around some of the biggest ways you can make an impact in your workplace. Each subject contains guides, with tools and insights, for addressing specific challenges.

Is Google's AMP project better than Facebook Instant Articles?
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The code behind the effort is all available on Github... the fact that it uses an open repository doesn’t mean that Google isn’t running the project, or deciding what gets included and what doesn’t... publishers have another option ... simply take the best parts of the specification from the publicly available documentation and implement those …

09/10/2015
6 top links on AMP
www.americanpressinstitute.org
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"Accelerated Mobile Pages speed up mobile page load times through a new open framework called AMP HTML, which Google says "allows websites to build light-weight web pages." Google says it has nearly 30 publishers signed on to participate in the project, including The New York Times, Vox and Gannett." (What was the point posting each of the 6 ar…

08/10/2015
Google's version of Instant Articles is better, Nuzzel founder says
fortune.com
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the Google standard gives publishers a streamlined page-loading script they can use that takes advantage of smart caching of content—either on their own servers or on Google’s servers—to make the various elements load faster...an order of magnitude faster than the typical mobile page... a completely open standard that any publisher can implemen…

Google, Twitter Work on Open Source ‘Instant Articles’ for Mobile
recode.net
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Google and Twitter to help publishers show “instant articles” to people who use their services on mobile phones... Twitter users or Google search users who click on a link while using their phones will see full articles pop up on their screens almost immediately... an open source project, and hope to convince multiple tech companies to adopt it…

02/10/2015
Apple vs. Google vs. Facebook and the slow death of the web
www.theverge.com
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...with iOS 9 and content blockers, what you're seeing is Apple's attempt to fully drive the knife into Google's revenue platform.... So it's Apple vs. Google vs. Facebook, all with their own revenue platforms. Google has the web, Facebook has its app, and Apple has the iPhone. This is the newest and biggest war in tech going today. And the …

Masterclass time. From the Google Blog:  we’ve taken the Google logo and branding, which were originally built for a single...
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Masterclass time. From the Google Blog:  we’ve taken the Google logo and branding, which were originally built for a single desktop browser page, and updated them for a world of seamless computing across an endless number of devices and different kinds of inputs (such as tap, type and talk).

European Publishers Play Lobbying Role Against Google
www.nytimes.com
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If the rules are approved, Google may eventually have to pay newspaper and magazine groups whenever links to their content are shown ... Similar copyright rules ... have so far backfired ... In Germany, Google removed many local organizations from its news service, which led to a drastic fall in online traffic to some newspapers’ sites. Local publ…

31/08/2015
How Google Could Rig the 2016 Election
www.politico.com
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... or any election, opinion poll ... "Google has amassed far more power to control elections and ... a wide variety of opinions and beliefs... easily shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by 20 percent or more—up to 80 percent in some demographic groups—with virtually no one knowing they are being manipulated.. In the United …

Playing Leapfrog & Werewolf with Google & Facebook
medium.com
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"Now we in journalism get to stand back and see technology titans jump over each other to bring benefits to news. But we’d best not stand back too far. We journalists and publishers must collaborate with the platforms as we demand that they collaborate with us. And as they teach us about technology, we must teach them about journalism." - Playi…

Google and Facebook are our frenemy. Beware
www.cjr.org
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Google, eight major publishers across Europe, and a couple of trade organizations are forming a partnership ... an alliance born out of desperation on the part of publishers and opportunity on the part of technology companies... the largest news and information companies in the world will be formed out of a hybrid of these current entities... …

06/05/2015
Google’s deal with publishers is good for journalism | Media Network | The Guardian
www.theguardian.com
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"Google announced a new partnership with several publishers on Tuesday. ...The Digital News Initiative.... I’m a huge fan of this idea. Contributoria (an open journalism network) and Swarmize (a data journalism platform) wouldn’t exist today without it.

The Guardian is trying to swing Google's pendulum back to publishers
www.niemanlab.org

Google promised a €150 million fund to promote platform and product digital news innovation, working with eight top European publishers... Europe is the squeaky wheel that Google decided to grease, with a sum that sounds large to cash-starved news publishers but is a pittance to Mountain View. It's 0.001% of Google's $14.4 billion profit in 201…

The Digital News Initiative - Google
www.digitalnewsinitiative.com
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The Digital News Initiative (DNI) is a partnership between Google and news publishers in Europe to support high quality journalism through technology and innovation.

06/05/2015
Google commits $150 million to improve diversity in tech
circanews.com

A good tour from Circa, not just re: Google: "Google ... will spend $150 million this year on a "far-reaching campaign" to improve the diversity of the technology industry... the technology industry "cannot be this homogeneous" if it intends to build products for a global marketplace."... Co-founders ... tasked the company in 2013 with doing…

06/05/2015
Google wants to rank websites based on facts
www.newscientist.com
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"the system ... counts the number of incorrect facts within a page ... by tapping into the Knowledge Vault, the vast store of facts that Google has pulled off the internet. Facts the web unanimously agrees on are considered a reasonable proxy for truth. Web pages that contain contradictory information are bumped down the rankings." - Google wan…

BBC Hits Back at 'Right to Be Forgotten'
theblot.com

"BBC will begin maintaining a list of its articles that have disappeared from Google under a controversial law granting European citizens the “right to be forgotten” by search engines." - BBC Hits Back at 'Right to Be Forgotten' Requests | TheBlot

30/10/2014
What Google tells people who want to be forgotten
qz.com
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"Forget.me has so far requested the removal of 15,000 links from people in 30 countries ... a respectable sample size. Here are trends that have emerged from Forget.me’s requests" - What Google is telling people who want to be forgotten – Quartz

08/10/2014
Good intro on social logins and the end of the anonymous web
qz.com
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"The notion that the world outside its homepage remains anonymous is increasingly untrue. Millions of internet users voluntarily give Facebook, Google, and others access to their movements across the web and on mobile when they use “social log in,” or the ability to sign in to a website using credentials from the big identity providers.... as mob…

"Google is doing what it can to fight a bad law"
gigaom.com
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"How do we know that a court will see the public’s right to know about a football referee’s misdemeanors, or even the chairman of Merrill Lynch’s transgressions, as being stronger than the right to be forgotten? We don’t... the right to be forgotten could allow powerful individuals to effectively censor search results even when the facts containe…

04/07/2014
"Right to be forgotten": making remembering it easier
marketingland.com
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"as these notices continue to flow out, it’s likely to become easier to know if someone did ask for a removal ... For anyone especially noteworthy, making a removal request from a major publication probably will get that publication to write an article about your request, which you’ll only get removed by filing a new request, which probably will …

04/07/2014
Google's Web Starter Kit
readwrite.com
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"Today Google launched Web Starter Kit, a download that consists of all the templates and tooling developers need to create sites that function on any device and any display... Google doesn't plan to compete with Bootstrap in terms of user interface components, of which it has notably less... may tie into some new design concepts coming from Goog…

Webs of flesh, spun over saleable data
www.zdnet.com
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Apparently we are all now "little more than webs of flesh spun over packages of saleable data", according to a searing indictment of Google's anti-anonymity policy specifically. This is required reading for anyone interested in a balanced view of anonymity, privacy and public discourse: "The Google+ so-called "real name" policy can best be descr…

Video: Creating a SEO strategy (with Webmaster Tools!)
googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.be
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"Wondering how to begin creating an organic search strategy at your company? What’s a good way to integrate your company’s various online components, such as the website, blog, or YouTube channel? Perhaps we can help! In under fifteen minutes, I outline a strategic approach to SEO for a mock company, Webmaster Central, where I pretend to be the SE…

19/11/2013
Media Tools – Google
www.google.com
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Consider this your starting point to tap into Google’s suite of digital tools that can enhance newsgathering and exposure across television, radio, print and online. Whether it’s refining your advanced search capabilities, improving audience engagement through Google+, or learning how to visualize data using Google Maps, this website is intended …

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