{"id":182,"date":"2006-02-01T16:18:20","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T14:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=182"},"modified":"2006-02-01T16:18:20","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T14:18:20","slug":"launch-of-google-news-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"Launch of Google News SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google have finally launched <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.co.za\">Google News South Africa<\/a>. It took a lot longer than I expected, but it&#8217;ll be interesting to see how well it works, and the response, if any, from the big publishers.<\/p>\n<p>At a very superficial first glance, all the big local publishers are there, and international news seems to be more prominent than it is on the local sites. There&#8217;re also some sources that may be unfamiliar to South African readers. The top business story as I write this comes from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asiantribune.com\">Asian Tribune<\/a>, interestingly pulled from the World Socialist Web Site, while the local business sites are very poorly represented in the business section. There&#8217;s not a single article from Business Report, Finance24 or Business Day. It&#8217;s perhaps a result of the times of the day that those particular sites update, with Google skewed towards recent updates. It&#8217;s not a healthy bias I think, but it&#8217;s a fine line to tread. Sites need to cater for those who&#8217;re online all day, as well as those who only check once a day. I&#8217;ve found myself visiting a news site on the afternoon of a big event, only to find no obvious mention of it, as it&#8217;s already dropped off the front page. If the local publishers attempt to chase the Google monster, they&#8217;ll only exacerbate this trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google have finally launched Google News South Africa. It took a lot longer than I expected, but it&#8217;ll be interesting to see how well it works, and the response, if any, from the big publishers. At a very superficial first glance, all the big local publishers are there, and international news seems to be more&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=182\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Launch of Google News SA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-social","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}