All entries tagged: Chris Gaither
Click caps and crawlers: A simple look at two of Google’s recent moves
Discussions involving Google and news organizations took a technical turn this week. Robots.txt files, search crawlers, click caps … I’m guessing most people aren’t intimately familiar with these things (and if you are, this piece isn’t for you). I figured it might be useful to strip away the tech jargon and filter a couple of [...]
The strange case of Google News and its “(blog)” label
Last month, Google News made a small and mysterious change to the way it displays some news sources: “We’re now visibly marking articles published on a news blog with a ‘(blog)’ label attached to the publication’s name,” Google explained, attributing the switch to user feedback. The label, a spokesman later told me, applies to any [...]
