Facebook overtakes Google News as media site traffic driver
February 5, 2010
Facebook was the #4 source of visits to News and Media sites last week, after Google, Yahoo! and msn, according to Hitwise. Google News accounted for 1.39% of visits to News and Media websites, and Facebook accounted for 3.52%. That’s a big shift since last April, when they were about equal. Read more »
Google News has new Twitter feed
April 27, 2009
Feed was launched April 21 and sends out one headline an hour. @googlenews
Google News Timeline
April 21, 2009
New and very cool: “Google News Timeline is a web application that organizes search results chronologically. It allows users to view news and other data sources on a browsable, graphical timeline. Available data sources include recent and historical news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, sports scores, and information about various types of media, like music albums and movies.”
