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Company Statements to Top the List of News Links in Google Search Results

Amend in the mode Google selects search results has endorsed company statements to summit the record of news links revealed when users look for businesses information.

As per the analysis, the measure can charge news publishers the traffic on the web and risks confusing the users. An employee from Google said that in the month of September, Google would like spread many sources from which it attain the openings that are visible in the section of ‘In the news’ in its search results page.

Formerly, just the links to stories on accepted the info websites like the newspapers and TV stations appeared in this section of the main search page. An employee of Google said, “The goal of search is to get users the right answer at any one time as quickly as possible that may mean returning an article from an established publisher or from a smaller niche publisher or indeed it might be a press release.”

The employee added that which may not proclaim in the September might alter and does not get rewarded for extra press releases on the menu. Latest samples of companies whose proclaims listed the ‘In the news’ section with the participation of Gemalto, the Franco-Dutch SIM card maker.

In the previous month, Gemalto definite the reports it had seeming to have the victim of hacking by US and the spies of British. The tale garngrabbedered wide media concentration but when users did a Google search for the word “Gemalto”, the first “In the news” section was a Gemalto claim that which acted down the blow of the hacking.

Starting this week, on the occasion of the launch of Apple’s latest watch, a link to a promotional website for the product went to the selection of ‘In the news’. Specified Gemalto and Apple did not exist for the comment that has been over reacted for about the days.

The chief data scientist at Chartbeat, Josh Schwartz that which ways towards the web traffic for news publishers and for the others proclaimed that it was willingly and the companies might utilize search engine optimization techniques to increase their states in the news categories. He said that the latest method might let the readers to conundrum by tending them to the public relations material and far from news.

That also reflects a danger to news organizations that rely on Google and other search engines to express the readers to their websites. Schwartz said, “The ‘In the news’ modules are potentially an extremely powerful driver of traffic. It could cost news sites traffic.”