{"id":34686,"date":"2011-09-26T10:19:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T08:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=34686"},"modified":"2011-09-26T10:21:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T08:21:21","slug":"google-news-gets-%e2%80%98featured%e2%80%99-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/34686-google-news-gets-%e2%80%98featured%e2%80%99-label.html","title":{"rendered":"Google News gets \u2018Featured\u2019 label"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News organisations can now add \u201cstandout\u201d metadata tags to the coding of special stories such as scoops, exclusives or unique breaking news.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> News will take the \u201cstandout\u201d tags along with an analysis of the article\u2019s content into account before deciding whether stories are awarded the Featured tag in the Google news stream.<\/p>\n<p>A Google representative told the Associated Press (AP) that a tagged story could appear on the Google news stream for longer than it normally would, however if a news organisation tags more than seven stories in a week, the algorithm used to analyse the data would become suspicious and give the tags less weight, or discount them completely.<\/p>\n<p>Competing news agencies are also able to tag stories as worthy of the Featured label. &#8220;The way we&#8217;ve designed standout is that when it&#8217;s used both ways &#8211; for calling out their own work and calling out the work of others &#8211; that builds our trust in that source,&#8221; a Google representative told the AP.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-20111235-93\/google-news-to-add-featured-labels-to-stories\/?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google News has added a new Featured label for standout news stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":26793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[5100,167,5098],"class_list":["post-34686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-associated-press","tag-google","tag-google-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34688,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34686\/revisions\/34688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}