Holdthefrontpage.co.uk: Publisher begins roll-out of new story links
Monday, 30 November 2009, 13:16
Northcliffe begins rollout of semantic-search based topic pages at thisisbristol.co.uk.
Nieman Journalism Lab: How The Associated Press will try to rival Wikipedia in search results
Thursday, 13 August 2009, 22:20
"[The AP plans] to build 'news guide landing pages' that will aggregate the AP’s content around subjects, places, organizations, and people. Think of the topic pages on sites like The Chicago Tribune, BBC, and others — except that the AP will be harnessing its vast network of members and customers in what could amount to a brilliant SEO play."
currybetdotnet: The tyranny of chronology: Part 2 – On the subject of topics
Thursday, 23 July 2009, 08:03
Martin Belam: "One of the consequences of [news organisations'] focus on chronology is that when our children want to do research on topics that news organisations have produced acres of coverage of, they find themselves turning to Google and Wikipedia, not The Times and the BBC."
Inside Guardian.co.uk: Designing search for The Guardian site
Sunday, 21 June 2009, 17:31
"I did a piece of search log analysis, where I examined the 500 most popular queries used on the site during a month, and classified them into broad types. 28% of the most popular queries were for what I classed as 'Guardian Navigation', i.e. queries like 'crossword', 'G2' or 'podcast'. The second most popular type of query was for a person's name, making up 27%. These names included Guardian contributors, political figures, sporting figures and celebrities. The third most popular type of query was location based. Often these were simple one word searches for a country name, and in total these made up 23% of the top 500 search terms. "
Inside Guardian.co.uk: Changes to The Guardian’s global navigation
Sunday, 21 June 2009, 16:41
"When we looked at the traffic patterns on the site, we found that amongst the main navigation links, the A-Z link was not used very often. When it was, it was mostly for a few "well trodden" navigational paths."
Online Journalism Blog: Telegraph drops to 5th place in Google results for MPs expenses
Tuesday, 19 May 2009, 10:49
Despite owning the story of MPs' expenses, Malcolm Coles notes that the the Telegraph topic page on the subject is being outperformed on Google by (among others) TheyWorkForYou, which has been covering the topic since 2004, and the Guardian's topic page.
O’Reilly Radar: Is Linking to Yourself the Future of the Web?
Tuesday, 19 May 2009, 10:40
Tim O'Reilly (August 2008): "Now, I understand the value of linking to other articles on your own site — everyone does it — but to do so exclusively is a small tear in the fabric of the web, a small tear that will grow much larger if it remains unchecked. "
New York Times: Topic Pages to Be Hub of New BusinessWeek Site
Tuesday, 19 May 2009, 10:33
(August 2008) "Each Business Exchange topic page links to articles and blog posts from myriad other sources, including BusinessWeek’s competitors, with the contents updated automatically by a Web crawler. Nearly all traditional news organizations offer only their own material, spurning the role of aggregator as an invitation to readers to leave their sites."
Barack Obama on Newsweek
Sunday, 17 May 2009, 10:27
Newsweek brands its entity landing pages "Newsweekopedia": "With Newsweekopedia, we collect all the news coverage, commentary, photography and multimedia stories published by Newsweek over the years on subjects ranging from Abba to Zoology. Each page of this unmatched knowledge resource combines the world-class content with your comments and best coverage from other news sites."
