One of the most common integrations has been the addition of a small Google News results section within the search results. If it often seems to you like the same news sites pop up again and again, you would be right.
Top 10 News Sites That Appear in Google News Results
Searchmetrics analyzed search results in March 2013 over several hundred thousand keywords and discovered the two most prominent news listings were both AOL owned properties Patch.com and Huffington Post. Rounding out the top 5 were Disney’s Go.com, NYTimes.com and WashingtonPost.com.
Here are the top 10 sites which appear in news integrations on Google.com (the number of times they appeared are in parenthesis):
patch.com, (4,352)
huffingtonpost.com, (3,530)
go.com, (3,140)
nytimes.com, (2,141)
washingtonpost.com, (1,873)
guardian.co.uk, (1,834)
yahoo.com, (1,826)
nydailynews.com, (1,488)
usatoday.com, (1,456)
foxnews.com, (1,405)
More News Results, More Sources
News results within the organic search results have increased dramatically, increasing by a staggering 70 percent throughout 2012, from Searchmetrics study on Universal Search integrations (note: requires signup). While Google started small by integrating news and other alternatives into their straight organic search, they have certainly ramped up the effort in the past year to provide current news stories to regular search users.
One of the most common integrations has been the addition of a small Google News results section within the search results. If it often seems to you like the same news sites pop up again and again, you would be right.
Top 10 News Sites That Appear in Google News Results
Searchmetrics analyzed search results in March 2013 over several hundred thousand keywords and discovered the two most prominent news listings were both AOL owned properties Patch.com and Huffington Post. Rounding out the top 5 were Disney’s Go.com, NYTimes.com and WashingtonPost.com.
Here are the top 10 sites which appear in news integrations on Google.com (the number of times they appeared are in parenthesis):
patch.com, (4,352)
huffingtonpost.com, (3,530)
go.com, (3,140)
nytimes.com, (2,141)
washingtonpost.com, (1,873)
guardian.co.uk, (1,834)
yahoo.com, (1,826)
nydailynews.com, (1,488)
usatoday.com, (1,456)
foxnews.com, (1,405)
More News Results, More Sources
News results within the organic search results have increased dramatically, increasing by a staggering 70 percent throughout 2012, from Searchmetrics study on Universal Search integrations (note: requires signup). While Google started small by integrating news and other alternatives into their straight organic search, they have certainly ramped up the effort in the past year to provide current news stories to regular search users.
