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...often end up near the front of Google News' queue? "It's not a trick," says Blair. "We have almost 25,000 writers posting 3,000 original articles per day." Examiners take seminars on writing headlines, writing in the third person and making full use of social media, all of which are Google manna. But Blair thinks it's mostly the scale of the operation that makes Examiner.com articles so attractive to search engines, from which more than half of the site's traffic comes. That is, by stocking the lake with so many fish every day, Examiner.com increases...
...Google is coy about the algorithm that sends some pages to the top of the news heap and others to Web obscurity, but originality, relevance and locality all play a role, Google says. The formula is always changing. On Monday Google announced that it would show live updates from social-media feeds on its news-search results. And on Tuesday, in response to complaints from newspapers and other news-gathering sources, it announced the creation of Living Story Page, a collaboration with the Washington Post and the New York Times, which puts ongoing stories, like health care reform, under...
Examiner.com is not alone in gathering an army of writers to create a hyper-local network for the Web. Social-networking site Gather.com works in a similar fashion, as does Prime Writer News Network and Associated Content. Each revenue model is a little different, but they all rely on the willingness of people to write for love. Shelley Frost, the San Francisco dogs Examiner, posts about three times a week. She estimates that she makes a dollar a day out of her writing, and $50 each time she recruits a new Examiner. "I do it to build relationships with other...
...second budget this year, and Ireland's harshest in decades. In a mini-budget announced a couple of hours earlier, Britain's Alistair Darling unveiled his government's latest plan to fix the U.K.'s broken economy, including a punitive tax on bankers' bonuses, a rise in social security contributions and a cap on public-sector workers...
...been sitting at this dining table for the past six hours. The dining room is actually more social than the living room, not even including dinners,” James said...