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Google Gets BBC Exec To Manage News, Books Deals

The world's largest broadcaster has lost an important executive to Google.  Madhav Chinnappa, who held the title of "Head of Business Development & Rights" at the BBC, is now supposed to help Google News and Google Books find more partners and handle the current lot. Chinnappa's rather lengthy new title is "Strategic Partner Development Manager, Google News & Books," and he should be well-suited to the position.  The contacts he must have made while working for the BBC will be worth a lot alone.

Is Google to Blame for Its Own News Pollution?

Search Engine Land Editor-in-Chief Danny Sullivan points out how poorly Google handles those gaming Google News, using Google Trends as a starting point. Do you find Google News to be too heavily polluted? Share your thoughts.

Google Continues Adding Options for Google News

At the end of June, Google made some big changes to the Google News home page. In fact, Google called these changes the biggest redesign of Google News since its beta launch in 2002.

Google Revamps Google News Homepage

Google has made some changes to the Google News homepage. "There's an old saying that all news is local," says Google's Kevin Stolt. "But all news is personal too—we connect with it in different ways depending on our interests, where we live, what we do and a lot of other factors. Today we’re revamping the Google News homepage with several changes designed to make the news that you see more relevant to you." This video pretty much sums it up:

Google Launches Ad News Site

Google has launched a new advertising news resource called simply "Google Ad News." It's a site that is powered by Google News and various ad-related categories you can choose feeds from.

Would a Google "Newspass" Work Better Than its Existing Paid Content Options?

There is a rumor that has been floating around the web for a few days (apparently starting at Italian newspaper La Repubblica) that Google is working on something called Newspass, which would let users pay for news content across multiple publications that charge for content - another way for publishers to get paid and still utilize Google (Google already has a few ways).

Google May Start Letting Publishers Promote Stories in Google News

Google is apparently experimenting with a new Google News feature, which may or may not become widely available (hence the "experiment" label). The feature is called Editors' Picks, and it's being displayed for a small subset of Google News users.

Google Working on New News Content/Ad Models?

Update: Google has now released video of Schmidt's speech. Watch it and hear what Schmidt has to say right from him.  

Are You Getting Your Content in Front of News Seekers?

Getting press coverage can mean a great deal for gaining traffic and overall exposure for your business. That said, there are also ways to take some initiative yourself in getting some exposure from news search. Is news search part of your strategy? Real-time? Social Search? Press releases? Discuss here.

Google and AP Together Again

After a seven-week-long hiatus, Google is now hosting content from the Associated Press again. The two have had a deal in place in the past, but AP content quietly went missing from Google, and that very fact became a topic of wide discussion last week. Now the deal appears to be renewed to some uncertain extent.